PM says shuttered plants can re-open, fresh reactors will be built, old ones are getting their lives extended
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said today his country would begin not only restarting nuclear plants sitting idle since the Fukushima affair, but will begin building reactors as well.…
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Just how bad does existing AI hardware have to be to start from scratch?
To quench the thirst for ever larger AI and machine learning models, Tesla has revealed a wealth of details at Hot Chips 34 on their fully custom supercomputing architecture called Dojo.…
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Well, you can't be attacked if your PC won't boot
VMware has admitted an update on some versions of its Carbon Black endpoint solution is responsible for BSODs and boot loops on Windows machines after multiple organizations were affected by the problem.…
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Different core counts, different cache sizes, and various cores possible in mix and match design, it says
Hot Chips Intel has given more detail on how its upcoming Meteor Lake processors will be made from multiple chiplets, enabling it to mix and match to deliver different capabilities, and easing the introduction of its successor, Arrow Lake – which follows the same construction.…
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'Limited subset' of users have emails, usernames, and hashed passwords stolen from the streaming site
Users of popular streaming and media organizing service Plex are waking up to an unpleasant email this morning saying, in the words of a Reg reader, "Plex have been hacked and their main site is down as we all rush to change passwords."…
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Enterprise agreements can increase pricing, marring an overall positive assessment from the analyst
ServiceNow customers struggle with its pricing policy, feeling they are being nudged into higher price brackets and failing to benefit from supposed discount packages, according to Gartner.…
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Artemis 1 is ready to light its candle
NASA's most powerful rocket, the Space Launch System, just passed its flight readiness review, bringing it one step closer to meeting a target launch date of August 29. …
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Tiny electromechanical units bounce traffic down different fibers
Google has scaled its network capacity from over one petabit per second to beyond six petabits per second since 2015, and some of that growth has come from switches that bounce optical signals off an array of mirrors to redirect traffic.…
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Tiny electromechanical units bounce traffic down different fibers
Google has scaled its network capacity from over one petabit per second to beyond six petabits per second since 2015, and some of that growth has come from switches that bounce optical signals off an array of mirrors to redirect traffic.…
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Utility says there's no reason facilities should be using drinking water, but also wastes a lot itself
Thames Water has started looking at the amount of water used by datacenters in the area it serves around London as parts of the UK are hit by drought.…
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Don't ask us how this is decided, it probably involved a lot of Perl
Once again, Python is at the top of the IEEE's annual survey of popular programming languages – seemingly decided by a grab bag of metrics – while SQL appears to be a crucial skill.…
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Sometimes you just want something dead simple that can maybe handle bold, italics, and a hyperlink or two
FOSS Fest PanWriter isn't all that small, but it's simple, clean, and does the bare minimum over a plain text editor.…
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Smile! You're on Candid Doorbell – and the joke's on us all
Column It's hard to understand why anyone expressed surprise when Amazon's VP of public policy, Brian Huseman, recently admitted sharing data with police.…
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Cost control measures seem to hit CFO too – he's re-used quotes about cuts
Concerns over rising labor costs and the subsequent impacts on their profits have led Indian outsourcer Infosys to cut Q1FY23 variable bonuses to an organizational average of 70 percent of theoretical maximum.…
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Kim Jong-un has entered the chat
Lloyd's of London insurance policies will stop covering losses from certain nation-state cyberattacks and those that happen during wars, beginning in seven months time.…
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Cryptography prof tells Microsoft to get forked
Earlier this month, the US Treasury Department sanctioned cryptocurrency mixing service Tornado Cash, claiming it provided money laundering for entities deemed national threats to America.…
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Users may get around $0.53 each, Facebook would lose about eight hours of annual profit
Meta has offered to pay $37.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit, which claimed its social media platform Facebook illegally harvested location data even when users explicitly denied consent.…
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That wasn't actually me on a Zoom call, it was a malicious AI clone built from TV interviews, claims PR
A Binance PR exec says crooks created a deep-fake "AI hologram" of him to scam cryptocurrency projects via Zoom video calls.…
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Loose access to production systems, out of date software, and more claimed
Twitter's former security chief Peiter "Mudge" Zatko accused the company and its board of directors of violating financial rules, of fraud, and of grossly neglecting its security obligations in a complaint to the US Securities & Exchange Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, and the US Justice Department last month.…
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Another reasonably good pick here from Humble Bundle with the Career Break Bundle. Here's what's in it and what to expect on Linux desktop and Steam Deck.
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Stop me if you've heard this before, but I've discovered another game that takes elements from Vampire Survivors and makes it nicely unique again. Enter the world of Boneraiser Minions.
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Waves and Waves 2: Notorious are two rather good twin-stick shooters and sadly, the developer died after a battle with Cancer and so now both games are free to keep for everyone.
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It has finally happened. Cemu, the Wii U emulator has a big new 2.0 release and it is now officially open source and available for Linux too.
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Radio General - Water Rats is the first paid expansion for the positively rated unique strategy game, where you call the orders over your microphone.
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PQube, a games publisher that has over 50 games on Steam, has been accused by one developer of "predatory practices".
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Intel's Data Center GPU Flex target AI, cloud gaming, video, and VDI applications.
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Pakistan will now tax graphics cards in accordance with their onboard memory capacity.
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These new M.2 2280 form factor NVMe SSDs will be available in October, starting from $179 for the 1TB model, sans-heatsink. Those wishing for a 4TB model will have to wait until 2023.
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The HyperX Armada 25 and Armada 27 start at $449.
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T-Mobile fulfilled its promise of fast speeds and attractive pricing, but the service died after two weeks.
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Twi_Kingyo has created an Ethernet adapter using a Raspberry Pi Pico capable of receiving 10BASE-T input via Ethernet.
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Mingda’s Magician Max is a large format printer designed with beginners in mind.
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We recommend the best SSDs for every need and budget based on our extensive lab tests.
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Using Grub Customizer, add a custom background to your Grub boot menu.
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New iPhones and Apple Watches reportedly on tap, while iPads and Macs will wait.
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A federal court will begin reviewing the case by the end of this month.
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Google's hardware division is still shockingly small, but it's making progress.
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Lead dev on Obsidian's first game since Microsoft acquisition: "We can do this now."
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Samsung claims 55 percent gain in random read/write performance over the 980 PRO.
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It would also force businesses to change how the handle data.
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The Sense 2 introduces passive AFib detection while you sleep.
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Meta-analysis finds the gap between infection and symptoms has gradually shortened.
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apt update or apt upgrade? Do not both of them update your system? What's the difference between the two similar commands?
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Blackbox is a new project in development that focuses on giving you a good-looking terminal emulator for your beautiful Linux setup.
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Also: Homeworld 3, Return to Monkey Island, and a car that connects to Pokemon games.
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Ohio judge says room scans could form a slippery slope to more illegal searches.
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Also: The PlayStation VR2 gets a release window at long last.
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Widening gap between supported and unsupported hardware makes things tricky.
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Twitter’s former security chief alleges execs hid security risks from regulators.
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Co-creator of core Unix utility, now 80, just needs to run a few more tests.
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"NASA might grow more hostile against China in the space domain."
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Tuxedo Computers' InfinityBook Pro 14 is only 0.6-inches thick and 2.9 pounds.
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Google Meet Hardware knows you're in a meeting, so it will disable the hotword.
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"Choose not the oath of fear, but that of faith."
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Engineers ran the numbers, and the answer varies.
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"This has been a really tough thing."
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When it comes to health issues, not all forms of being sedentary are equal.
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The request is partly based on preclinical data. A clinical trial has yet to start.
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Sony is introducing a new controller for the PS5, the DualSense Edge, to provide gamers more customization options than the original DualSense.
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Asus shows off the ROG Crosshair X670E Gene motherboard for Zen 4 CPUs.
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If one PCIe 5.0 x4 drive is not enough, four may be just what you want. Gigabyte's Aorus Gen5 AIC adapter can reach speeds of up to 60 GBps.
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4K OLED panels are G-Sync compatible, offer deep blacks, wide color gamut, up to 138 Hz refresh rates, and 0.1ms response times for immersive fast-paced gaming.
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Chinese manufacturer LeapFive has revealed the NB2, its RISC-V processor with a GPU on board.
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One of Valve's employees unexpectedly announced more Q4 reservations for the Steam Deck are being transferred to Q3, with production outperforming expectations.
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The Akko ACR Pro Alice Plus is a mainstream interpretation of the highly coveted Alice layout that features a fantastic gasket-mount design and a boat load of accessories.
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It would be natural to see downward pricing pressure due to such large inventories, but some PC makers are confident they can use 80-90% of their PC ICs and components in next-gen PCs.
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You can order an engineering sample of AMD's Ryzen 5 7600X online.
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The Arctis Nova 7 Wireless has been redesigned to look like the Arctis Nova Pro Wireless, with a fully-retractable mic, simultaneous dual-wireless connectivity, and new speaker drivers that...could be better.
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The Arctis Nova 1 is a slim, lightweight, comfortable analog headset, and it costs just $60.
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The Arena Wireless Mic is a wireless, on-ear mic designed to work with speakers (which it does, very well), but it’s pretty expensive for such a specific product.
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Arctic has released a free service kit for all owners of defective Liquid Freezer II AIOs, featuring a bad gasket. The service kit allows users to replace the gasket at their location, keeping system downtime low.
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NVIDIA has released the latest update to their special Vulkan Beta Driver, for developers and users who want to test out the very-latest stuff.
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After being announced back in June, we now actually have a release date for the latest Hearts of Iron IV expansion from Paradox with By Blood Alone coming on September 27th.
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Creative Assembly and SEGA have announced the massive Total War: WARHAMMER III 2.0 patch which comes along with a Beta version of Immortal Empires.
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ProtonUp-Qt is a simple and great way to manage the likes of GE-Proton (previously known as Proton GE), the Luxtorpeda compatibility tool for Native Linux game engines and more.
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GOG are making a big splash with "The GOG Sale" which is live now until September 5th, 10 PM UTC. Time to pick up a bunch of DRM free goodies?
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Valve has confirmed that production of the Steam Deck has gone better than expect, and so even more (yes again) people will be seeing their emails to purchase one.
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Now Intel just needs to ship a compatible CPU
Hot Chips Intel offered the closest glimpse yet at its flagship datacenter GPU, code named Ponte Vecchio, at the Hot Chips conference this week, with its own internal benchmarks showing the chip outperforming AMD’s MI250x and competing head-to-head with Nvidia’s upcoming H100 GPU.…
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Network interface card LEDs are a risk too by blinking in Morse code
An Israeli security researcher known for foiling air gap security measures has published a reminder of just how vulnerable the approaches are to both visual and ultrasonic threats. …
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Ready or not, ISS is coming down in 2031, and Amazon, Boeing and more are ready for business
NASA has given the go-ahead for the first commercially owned and operated space station, Orbital Reef, to advance to design phase.…
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Meanwhile, Mark Zuckerberg's Meta spends billions on the concept
COMMENT While Meta has been hemorrhaging billions trying to bring CEO Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse to life with little to show for it, China has decided it too will take a crack at the virtual-reality concept.…
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Top secret tech theft admission sealed into top secret plea deal
An ex-Apple engineer who worked on Titan – the company's "need to know basis" self-driving car project – yesterday admitted to stealing proprietary tech while he was working for the company.…
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CEO pledges to 'keep moving Moore's Law forward' during Hot Chips keynote
Hot Chips Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger sees a future where everything is a computer assembled from chiplets using advanced packing technologies like Intel's own as the chipmaker seeks to keep Moore's Law alive.…
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Privacy case claiming Big Red contravened a string of US laws follows boasts made by Larry Ellison in 2016
Oracle is the subject of a class-action suit alleging the software giant created a network containing personal information of hundreds of millions of people and sold the data to third parties.…
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Airbus's solar-powered Zephyr nosedives after more than 64 days aloft
An unmanned, solar-powered drone was hours from breaking the world record for the longest-duration flight before it suddenly crashed.…
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Telco billionaire purchase A-OK from national security standpoint, apparently, but will he buy up more?
The UK government has declared it will take no further action regarding the purchase of BT shares by French telco billionaire Patrick Drahi, following a national security assessment into his Altice company becoming the largest BT shareholder.…
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Japanese giant will stop making mainframes four years later
Fujitsu has been awarded a renewed contract for support and maintenance of the aging UK Police National Computer (PNC) after no other companies tendered for the work.…
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New and friendlier CAC, after years of cracking down
The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) has signaled it would like to smooth growing tensions with internet firms after a couple of years in which it strongly asserted its powers.…
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Oh wow, get a load of Google using strcpy() all wrong – strcpy! Haha, you'll never ever catch us doing that
Microsoft has described a severe ChromeOS security vulnerability that one of its researchers reported to Google in late April.…
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Here's how to detect an intrusion via vulnerable email systems
Organizations that didn't immediately patch their Zimbra email systems should assume miscreants have already found and exploited the bugs, and should start hunting for malicious activity across IT networks, according to Uncle Sam.…
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Hopefully Lucky 13 spots suggested, all on the south pole near water ice
The next US astronauts to set foot on the Moon will find themselves on the summit of a mountain range or the ridge of a crater near the lunar south pole.…
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Timing for plan to redirect HTTP requests now indeterminate to allow for further feedback
More than a decade after implementing support for secure HTTPS connections on its website, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is finally planning to begin redirecting insecure HTTP connections to the more protected spec.…
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But don't worry, Zuck would never misuse this type of sensitive data
Novant Health confirmed that it may have disclosed 1.3 million patients' sensitive data, including email addresses, phone numbers, financial information - even doctor's appointment details - to Meta.…
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Tiny server can unlock greater powers in not only HomeKit, but Google and Alexa.
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An internal petition says individual teams should set remote-work policies.
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Pilot can't quite escape the shadow of Game of Thrones, but it's eminently watchable.
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E-cores in desktop CPUs have proven handy for big multi-threaded workloads.
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New page highlights popular podcast episodes and playlists.
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Inflation, lockdowns, and a sense of sameness hurt global smartphone demand.
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Fauci, 81, has advised seven presidents on infectious disease threats.
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ClearMR spec grants monitors, TVs, & more with a number representing motion blur performance.
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Apple will sell and rent parts and tools for M1 Mac laptop repairs.
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A "reboot" that doesn't even surpass open-world GTA-like games of the late '00s.
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"We hadn't really expected it to be this good, to be honest."
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Scammers are using cloud services to create and host web pages that can be used to lure victims into handing over their credentials
Criminals are slipping phishing emails past automated security scanners inside Amazon Web Services (AWS) to establish a launching pad for attacks.…
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There is a madness to the methods
Boffins at universities in France, Germany, Luxembourg, and Sweden took a deep dive into known Java deserialization vulnerabilities, and have now resurfaced with their findings. In short, they've drawn attention to the ways in which libraries can accidentally introduce serious security flaws.…
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Washington, Seoul, Beijing, Taipei and ...Mexico City battle to attract vendors
Mexico is the next country in line to offer incentives to tempt semiconductor manufacturers to set up shop, and may be aiming to take advantage of the US desire to bring manufacturing closer to home.…
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For 'limited, serial number-authorized repairs' in move unlikely to appease critics
Loyal Mac fans inclined to break out the WD-40 and duct tape when their trusted devices misbehave now have access to an official Apple Self Service Repair program.…
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Prolific group pummeled days after claiming to be file thief behind attack on cybersecurity vendor
The LockBit ransomware group last week claimed responsibility for an attack on cybersecurity vendor in June. The high-profile gang is now apparently under a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) because of it.…
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In the battle between bandwidth, latency, and starvation, we'll always be choosing two
Trying to create a network that's fair, equitable, and starvation-free may simply be impossible – at least with current congestion control algorithms (CCA), an MIT study has found.…
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Fellow group member Taiwan claims it never got the invite
A South Korean official confirmed on Thursday that the country would attend the preliminary meeting of the so-called international Chip 4. Fellow prospective member, Taiwan, claims it had not been given any details of the event.…
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A faster 51.2Tbit/sec co-packaged switch is also in the works
Broadcom will deploy its 25.6Tbit/sec Humbolt co-packaged optical (CPO) switches in China-based cloud provider Tencent's datacenters in a bid to accelerate adoption of the emerging network tech.…
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Liz Truss to go over IR35 off payroll tax as ruling party voters gear up to pick their leader
The leading candidate to replace Boris Johnson as the UK's prime minister has said she would review changes to the IR35 tax rules so often criticized by IT contractors.…
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PowerPoint presentations are all well and good, but for Peter Beck, you can't beat something physical
Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck spoke at the SmallSat 2022 conference and offered up words of wisdom for anyone pondering an entry into the lighter end of the launch market.…
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No country for old menus
Opinion A year ago, corporate VR sucked deep on the hype pipe and offered it around. We weren't convinced. All that investment, all that technology, to recreate a drab pastiche of the very environments we'd gratefully escaped in the magical world of WFH.…
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New kid on the block risked decimating colleagues' side hustle
Who, Me? When you start a new job, you always want to impress the boss by going the extra mile (or kilometer). But doing so can risk incurring the wrath of co-workers. …
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It's getting hot in here so take down all your nodes
Comment This year's summer heatwaves aren't just making your average Brit's life a bit miserable, it also caused problems for some cloud providers and server admins trying to keep their gear running.…
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Plus: See if in-app browsers are monitoring you, a novel industrial network attack technique, and more
In brief Zoom fixed a pair of privilege escalation vulnerabilities, which were detailed at the Black Hat conference this month, but that patch was bypassed, necessitating yet another fix.…
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Plus: Indonesia's four-hour takedown demand; Peak Facebook in Korea?; Alibaba frees font; and more.
Asia In Brief Huawei last week unveiled initiatives to encourage developers to work on its Harmony OS – the platform it created after US sanctions denied the Chinese giant access to Google's Android operating system.…
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A new motion blur specification has been released by VESA, to more accurately benchmark image quality in motion on all types of displays.
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Intel details the company's Ponte Vecchio Xe-HPC GPU at Hot Chips 34.
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We don’t know if the improved pace of development will mean an earlier date for the mass production of N3E. However, if this is likely, TSMC will promptly inform the market/shareholders.
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The latest data from the German publication 3D Center reveals the newest trend in AMD and Nvidia GPU pricing.
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During an RMA process, a Samsung representative reportedly asked a customer to destroy his dying Samsung 980 Pro SSD.
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Intel detailed its 3D Foveros chiplet packaging technology for its Meteor Lake, Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake processors at Hot Chips 34.
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Intel hopes to deliver up to 4.4x faster graphics and 6.6x AI inference to the edge and has lined up hybrid IoT chips up to 14C/20T and 45W power.
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Extreme overclocker SkatterBencher tries his best to overclock Intel's Arc A380 to 3.1 GHz, but Intel driver limitations and PL4 power limit issues prevent a successful overclock.
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A UK legal action alleging Sony kept PS Store prices high is seeking up to £5 billion in compensation.
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We've tested a collection of graphics cards on the Saints Row 2022 reboot to see what sort of performance you can expect. We also provide an in-depth look at the settings and which ones have the biggest impact on frame rates and image fidelity.
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Cooler Master’s GM32-FQ is a 32-inch IPS/QHD gaming monitor with 165 Hz, Adaptive-Sync HDR and extended color. It also sports near-perfect color accuracy and extremely low input lag.
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Solaria123 is using the HDMI port on his Raspberry Pi 4 to enable I2C support when access is otherwise blocked.
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Plazas and Promenades is the next expansion for the city-builder Cities: Skylines, giving you the option to build up some special pedestrian zones.
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Failbetter Games put a new production update post up recently for Mask of the Rose that went over the user interface, but they also announced a delay.
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It's the beginning of a fresh week so maybe you want some new games? Well, Humble Store has a huge amount discounted in their new Summer Sale that lasts until September 6th.
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Star Labs, hardware vendor with some really lovely looking laptops with first-class Linux support have announced the StarBook Mk VI with Ryzen 7 or Intel 12th Gen.
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A city-builder not quite like the others it seems. Synergy from Leikir Studio and Goblinz Publishing has a pretty great pastel colour style to it.
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Listing the USB devices connected to your system can help in troubleshooting the USB issues. Learn various GUI and command line methods of getting USB details in Linux.
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A new Cannon Lake "Special Samples" prototype CPU has emerged, showcasing a third die featuring integrated voltage regulation functionality.
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AMD's Threadripper Pro 5995WX and 5975WX barrel into the workstation market with 64 cores, 128 threads, eight memory channels, and class-leading performance.
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If you're selling your PC or storage drive, you need to wipe it so well that the next person can't recover your data.
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Plus: How US Homeland Security uses AI – and text-to-image systems deployed in social media
In brief Elon Musk wants Tesla's robot butler to be able to cook, mow laws, and care for the elderly, he wrote in an essay published in a magazine backed by the official Cyberspace Administration of China.…
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Dealmaster also has Anker charging cables, Doom games, and Surface PCs.
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Urine has lots of nitrogen and phosphorus—a problem as waste, great as fertilizer.
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YouTuber PCGH Benchmarks & Analysis has tested the Arc A380 graphics card on Crysis at 1080p (1920x1080) resolution.
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The latest Intel Graphics Compiler patches unearthed references to accelerated ray tracing abilities in Meteor Lake’s iGPU.
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Tennis Smith has created a Raspberry Pi-powered doorbell that listens for his to meow before sending a notification text.
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Sharing code is how we learn, but we don’t want to share too much. In this how-to, we learn where to safely store our account credentials, and how to work with them.
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Traffic is growing 30 percent every year, there's no reason to believe that'll change, BT's Andrew Lord argues
Every year the bandwidth that telecom networks carry increases by roughly 30 percent. To keep up, the interconnects on which these networks are built are going to need to get a whole lot smarter and more capable before long, BT's Andrew Lord said during his Hot Interconnects keynote early this week.…
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Hopefully these probes won't end up as target practice for some aliens in a few centuries
The most distant human-made objects, Voyager 1 and 2, are still cruising in interstellar space, more than 12 billion miles from Earth, as NASA today celebrates the 45th year of its longest-operating mission.…
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Valve has released the latest version of Proton Experimental, which has multiple newly supported games and a few useful bug fixes included.
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Linux Mint is undoubtedly the best distribution for the beginners. The Mint 21 release makes it a bit better in terms of features and functionalities.
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Sandia has been working on the project for more than a decade – now comes scaling
When it comes to turning turbines, steam is out and supercritical carbon dioxide is in – as demonstrated by Sandia National Labs when it connected a closed-loop system to the local grid, supplying 10 kilowatts of power for nearly an hour. …
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Shakeup in teaching looms as code-completion tool lets students 'bring an Uzi to a knife fight'
Microsoft's AI code-suggestion tool GitHub Copilot is showing itself to be so capable that educators may have to rethink how they teach computer science.…
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Tesla sedan, 46 Chanel bags, 16 Rolexes, and more equals three years behind bars
Now-former HP finance manager Shelbee Szeto has been sentenced to three years in prison and ordered to forfeit more than 250 luxury items after she blew $5m on herself using company credit cards.…
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Realizes there's a big beautiful world out there and sets sail for Japan
Microsoft has taken a tentative step to expand the Windows Subsystem for Android outside of the US by making the preview available in Japan.…
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Imagine how much Apple would charge for a power lead that long
A spacewalk by a pair of cosmonauts working on the European robotic arm on the International Space Station ended prematurely due to battery power issues.…
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We look at the official flavors, but there are more out there
Alongside the official flavors, some of Ubuntu's other remixes have new 22.04.1 versions out: Unity, Cinnamon, and Kylin.…
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AWS said to be taking an interest in homegrown silicon, meaning chipmaker must have a functional demo
Chipmaker Qualcomm is said to be preparing to re-enter the Arm server market, based on technology the company gained from its acquisition of startup Nuvia last year.…
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Customers could be better off with specialist providers and service partners, Chocolate Factory decides
Google Cloud is turning off its IoT services as of August 2023, leaving customers with less than a year to find alternatives.…
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If you absolutely must keep using those proprietary formats, walk this way
Just over six months on from version 7.3, LibreOffice 7.4 Community has arrived, boasting improvements in Microsoft Office compatibility.…
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Trail from Super Orange HK Holding Ltd leads back to National Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund
The UK government has blocked the sale of a British chip design software outfit to a Chinese company, citing national security. The move is the latest step the government has taken in its increasingly defensive stance against foreign ownership of UK technology companies.…
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Well now there's an idea
In what may be a major shift, Google plans to revise its search algorithm to rank content crafted primarily for people rather than content designed to impress web crawlers and indexing bots.…
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Long list of open standards contributions part of journey to REST-based GIS stack, companies say
Database vendor MariaDB has forked out an undisclosed sum for CubeWerx, a geospatial data specialist, in the hope of making make these features easier to build into data-hungry applications.…
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Not to mention the severely disadvantageous subscription model
Something for the Weekend I have an app whose sole purpose is to launch another app.…
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Who knows where all those cables go anyway?
On Call Welcome once again to On Call, The Register's ongoing chronicle of IT incidents that readers have managed to survive, divert or diminish, while emerging with reputations intact.…
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Privacy, it's a useful marketing term *Offer does not apply in China
Apple has left a VPN bypass vulnerability in iOS unfixed for at least two years, leaving identifying IP traffic data exposed, and there's no sign of a fix.…
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A350 saved from peril by sharp-eyed ground crew
Australian wasps have once again brought a passenger aircraft to the brink of peril.…
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Tech preview is Azure-only for now, adding to previous AWS Arm adventures
Red Hat has delivered a tech preview of its OpenShift containerization platform that can drive clusters spanning both x86 and Arm silicon.…
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Mandate goes into effect October 1, but industry players will have one year to comply
Vietnam’s Ministry of Information and Communications updated cybersecurity laws this week to mandate Big Tech and telecoms companies store user data locally and control that data with local entities.…
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Don’t Panic if you run terabytes of RAM and need to understand a dumped snapshot
Oracle's Solaris operating system remains widely used, even though Big Red more or less froze development of the product in 2018 save for regular Support Repository Updates (SRUs) that add minor updates and bug fixes.…
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There's always a get-out clause
An attempt by lawmakers to improve parts of the US government's cybersecurity defenses has raised questions – and hackles – among infosec professionals.…
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Sure, it's pricey, but not using it would be more expensive, says drug maker
A one-time gene therapy treatment recently approved by America's FDA is gaining attention not just for its clinical value, but for its price: at $2.8 million, Bluebird Bio's Zynteglo is the most expensive drug in US history.…
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Rollerdrome is a thoroughly odd blending of mechanics and style found in the likes of Tony Hawk Pro Skater, a little Jet Set Radio and Max Payne.
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Did you enjoy Into the Breach and other similar small-scale strategy games? Tactical battler Tyrant's Blessing has released along with Native Linux support and it's Steam Deck Verified.
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Roadwarden is an illustrated text adventure that I've played the demo of a few times through its development, and it's finally getting a release.
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Here is your daily dose of what the heck? YouTube and the mighty algorithm decided for no apparent reason, that my Steam Deck video was "harmful and dangerous".
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As time goes on, more developers are tweaking their games to improve the Steam Deck experience and Witchtastic looks like a fun co-op game to try out.
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Motion Twin / Evil Empire have announced that Dead Cells is increasing in price in Argentina & Turkey, as it seems too many people were taking advantage of the cheaper prices from other countries.
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Love your superhero stuff? Keep an eye on Capes, an upcoming turn-based strategy RPG full of people with superpowers.
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Plus eight other winning images in 2022 BMC Ecology and Evolution image competition.
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With Botometer tool, you can "choose any threshold... to get any result you want."
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The ambitious change is expected to cut energy consumption by a factor of 1,000.
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At $249,000, the Lucid Air Sapphire will be a rare thing indeed.
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Nuvia—a company founded by ex-Apple CPU engineers—will also tackle server designs.
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Some are seeing charges on cards they've never activated or hardly used.
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Company says Framework's 3D-printed motherboard case infringes its trademark.
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One class of PFAS chemicals can be broken down into harmless compounds with lye.
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Full 60+ game list also includes some Genesis classics with new gameplay features.
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All signs point to notorious 20th-century forger.
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Easily one of the best Chromebooks you can buy, but it could use a price drop.
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"We are definitely seeing significant attrition. That should surprise no one."
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We help you find RTX 3060-powered gaming laptop deals.
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Asus announces rough and tough AM5 motherboards for AMD's Ryzen 7000-series Zen 4 CPUs.
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An almost fully fledged Raptor Lake CPU product table highlights the evolution to expect moving from Alder Lake. Some chips seem to fare better than others across the gen-to-gen transition.
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Bitcoin has followed the general trading markets in its fall to three-week lows of $21,400: the sharpest decline over two months. In addition, expectations of a hawkish fed and more aggressive moves against inflation have reduced investor confidence.
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MSI has created a new low-profile Mini-ITX motherboard featuring a Core i5 Tiger Lake processor for professionals desiring to build a compact desktop workstation that sips power.
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Nvidia shared more details about the Nvidia Grace CPU and Nvidia Grace Hopper CPU Superchip at Hot Chips 34.
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In the battle of the following gen 2P server systems, AMD leads, despite Cinebench R23 rendering maxing out at 125C/256T - leaving 64C/128T of untapped potential.
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Gigabyte unveils its client PCIe 5.0 x4 SSD with up to 12.4 GBps throughput.
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How warm is it? Is the air too humid? Are there volatile organic compounds in the air? Enviro Indoor will help you find out.
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RS Components had been a manufacturer and distributor of Raspberry Pi since its launch in 2012.
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Workspaces are a great way to stay organized and productive. Here is how to create and use workspaces in Linux Mint Cinnamon.
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The long-predicted shift finally happened.
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Lower emissions and lower obesity would more than offset the added traffic deaths.
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CHD says the ban came "without warning." Meta says it followed many violations.
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Decent power for traveling or small hands.
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The firm hopes stopping all health data collection will block the FTC's lawsuit.
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The Moto Edge has a super-fast display, but can the MediaTek SoC keep up?
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Problem has been assigned an official CVE ID, despite lack of specifics.
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MacOS security researcher was able to bypass the fix issued just last weekend.
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Text found in iOS app code says plan won't allow downloads for offline viewing.
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Twitch streamers also hit for playing with modded characters like Jesus Christ.
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After a chain of attacks, security firm got access to locations and recordings.
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Swedish publication Vi Bilägare quantified the problem with new tests.
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Such an initiative would require a 200-fold increase over current space-lift capacity.
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Limited Run Games has also been acquired, along with five worldwide game studios.
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The app is adding internal teams to review influencer posts for violations.
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First CrossMark results of Intel's Core i5-13600HX leak.
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AMD is reportedly dealing with serious AGESA microcode issues on its upcoming AM5 platform, which might delay Ryzen 7000's release window to late September.
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Samsung envisions 1TB DDR5 modules to arrive in 2024, DDR5-7200 to hit the market in 2025.
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Framework is changing the power button on its open source case design after a challenge from Lenovo claiming that it infringes upon Lenovo's Legion trademarks.
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Intel factories in China's Sichuan Province, have been shutd down in order to reduce the strain in the electrical grid.
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We help you find RTX 3070-powered gaming laptop deals.
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New evidence surrounding Samsung's 990 Pro SSD suggest it will be either a PCIe 4.0 or PCIe 5.0 drive.
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ThinkLearnDo has created a Raspberry Pi-powered keychain holder that can back up data overnight to a USB thumb drive.
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The Core i9 Raptor Lake chip jumps from being 39% to 59% faster than its Alder Lake predecessor thanks to the application of an improved cooling solution.
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Ubuntu has a new home: the VisionFive RISC-V board from StarFive.
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Nvidia updates its Chrome and Edge browser implementation of GeForce Now to support 1440p and 120 fps gameplay for members of the RTX 3080 plan.
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New Intel 700-series motherboards to enable extreme turbo boost levels for Intel's 13th Generation Core processors.
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Big crypto miners have racked up massive debts, but their hardware is still worth a lot of cash. However, SDIG is well placed for market swings as it also owns power generation plants too.
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The Dell Pro webcam offers 2K QHD resolution and performs well without any image adjustments or software tweaks.
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Cooler Master adds to its high-performance gaming monitor stable with the GM27-FQS. It’s a 27-inch QHD/IPS panel with 165 Hz, Adaptive-Sync, HDR10 and a wide gamut. With accurate color and smooth video processing, it’s ready to play.
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A bizarre situation in which a Janet Jackson music video can crash a laptop has gained official recognition.
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The Roccat Kone XP Air does a pretty good job at drawing attention to itself with its eye-popping RGB and ergonomic design, but its $170 price tag is steep.
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Here are the best RAM kits we’ve tested: computer memory ideal for gaming, video editing, and graphics-heavy applications.
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Fraudsters send fake Microsoft Office USB drives to gain PC access and demand ransom.
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Staff remind CEO 'don't be evil' and treat workers equally
Hundreds of Googlers this week demanded CEO Sundar Piachi do a better job protecting people seeking abortions by refusing to hand over to law enforcement any customer data that could be used to build a criminal case, and extending the health benefits full-time employees enjoy to contract workers.…
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Aiming to make Helium the standard for decentralized networks
DIY 5G network outfit FreedomFi has been bought by Nova Labs, the founding team behind the Helium Network.…
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Utility companies are offering $2 per kWh for power stored in battery tech
More Tesla Powerwall owners in California are getting the option to help fight blackouts – and get paid for it – as thecompany expands its virtual power plant (VPP) program to new areas of the Golden State. …
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Best before September 15, 2023
Microsoft has demonstrated that it really does care about Windows on Arm with a new Dev Channel build for Windows that brings native Arm64 support to its camera app as a low-impact start.…
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Beijing says legislation designed to interfere with its own efforts to build homegrown semiconductor industry
China has reacted negatively to the passing of the US CHIPS Act, saying that the program is anti-competitive and aims to block the Middle Kingdom's efforts to build up its own semiconductor industry.…
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46 million requests per second network flood comes as attacks increase by more than 200% compared to last year
Google says it has blocked the largest ever HTTPS-based distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in June, which peaked at 46 million requests per second.…
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Yep, that’s the same company a short-seller is alleging is a ‘useless toy’
Quantum computing startup IonQ now has a second system available on Microsoft's Azure Quantum cloud platform, claiming it will open quantum systems to a wider audience.…
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As mission-critical nature of software supports prices, users also find reason to invest
Despite inflation hitting a 40-year high and expected recessions, growth in enterprise software spending is expected to plow on at a steady 12 percent, according to figures from Forrester.…
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For all the billions poured in, is a 'Made in America' sticker worth it?
Analysis With all the fanfare and foundry expansions around the signing of the $280 billion CHIPS and Science Act, you'd be forgiven for thinking that the semiconductor shortage will soon be over, and the US will emerge as a silicon powerhouse rivaling that of Taiwan's TSMC and South Korea's Samsung and SK Hynix.…
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'Even on a small coin battery, it could run for more than 10 years' claims researcher
A newly published research paper describes a compute-in-memory (CIM) chip that combines artificial neurons with resistive RAM (RRAM) so that the AI model weights can be stored and processed on the same chip.…
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Financial Services Commission also creates a digital assets task force
South Korea's Financial Intelligence Unit (KoFIU) said on Thursday it has identified 16 foreign crypto businesses it will investigate for operating unregistered.…
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And it IS a crowd – marketplace is busy. Customers get choice of analytics engine and storage layer in open approach
Former Hadoop stalwart Cloudera has announced a fully managed software as a service (SaaS) version of its data platform which it claims is more open than rivals in the over-crowded market.…
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Is this it? The robo-butler dream is coming true?
Video Google's largest AI language model is helping robots be more flexible in understanding and interpreting human commands, according to the web giant's latest research.…
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Which flavors are the lightest and the heaviest disk and memory-wise?
The Reg FOSS desk has lined up the official Ubuntu remixes to see which ones hog the most or least of your computer's resources.…
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Food and fuels, too? Totally not sounding like a Star Trek replicator
Last year, NASA produced oxygen on Mars. Now, scientists experimenting here on Earth may have found a much more efficient method of doing so for future missions. The resulting equipment could be used to produce the necessary materials for human colonization, too.…
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Hardware still required – plus tolerance for visiting the office and remote collaboration
Microsoft has advised its partner community that it will soon drop the price it charges for Teams Rooms, and add a version of the product aimed at small business.…
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Clop gang thought it hit Thames Water – but real victim was elsewhere
A water company in the drought-hit UK was recently compromised by a ransomware gang, though initially it was unclear exactly which water company was the victim.…
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Nastymail tracking service blames sloppy sending practices for swelling lists of dangerous mailers
Spam-tracking service Spamhaus reported Tuesday that some of the world's biggest brands are getting loose with their email practices, causing its spam blocklists (SBL) to swell significantly.…
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Another reason not to play 1989’s ‘Rhythm Nation’ – it messes with hard disk drives
The music video for Janet Jackson’s 1989 song “Rhythm Nation” has been recognised as a cybersecurity vulnerability after Microsoft reported it can crash old laptop computers.…
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Network boffins can't say why, suggest not using the worst providers
China's DNS resolvers fail two thirds of the time when handling queries for IPv6 addresses, and botch one in eight queries for IPv4, according to a group of Chinese academics.…
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As if the VR giants will let that stand – worth a try, though
Imagine for a moment that you wanted to spend time in what Meta solipsistically calls the metaverse, a keiretsu of interactive cartoon panoramas powered by commercial surveillance and payment persuasion.…
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Hanoi Studios have today put up their second multi-developer bundle on Steam, with a primary focus on highlighting studios that support Linux.
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Sneaking out at some point, Covert Critter is an upcoming stealth action game that will have Native Linux support. It's also pretty much Metal Gear Solid with animals.
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The weekend is coming closer and you want some new games? Check out the small Paradox Interactive bundle from Humble Bundle with a few of what they've published.
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Embracer Group are quite terrifying. The amount of power they have in the gaming industry is simply insane and now they're swallowing up more studios and even the full rights to The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.
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Valve has announced three things recently including multiple updates that are out now for the Steam Deck, plus a quick tease of what's to come for a Beta of SteamOS 3.4.
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Top tip: Your RSA private key should not be copied from a public code tutorial
A developer says he was able to run his own software on his car infotainment hardware after discovering the vehicle's manufacturer had secured its system using keys that were not only publicly known but had been lifted from programming examples.…
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.NET-based malware can push wide range of malicious payloads, and evades detection, Secureworks says
A highly pervasive .NET-based crypter that has flown under the radar since about 2015 and can deliver a wide range of malicious payloads continues to evolve rapidly, with almost 10,000 code samples being uploaded to VirusTotal over a 16-month period.…
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As promised, Peter Beck is sending a Photon next year. Because he can
Rocket Lab's Peter Beck is sending a Photon spacecraft carrying a small probe to Venus, marking the culmination of a childhood ambition for the CEO.…
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Linux distro announces the availability of Microsoft tooling on Jammy Jellyfish
Ubuntu and Microsoft have brought .NET 6 to the Ubuntu repositories, meaning that you can install it without adding any extra sources to the OS.…
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Misinformation's a concern, but Chinese media giant's own data privacy practices also have people worried
TikTok has joined Twitter in publishing new US midterm misinformation rules, with considerable crossover in scope and style.…
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Boeing 747-based platform now back in California with almost a month to go before science operations end
The doomed SOFIA observatory has made an earlier-than-planned return from New Zealand as the Boeing 747-based platform prepares to enter its final month of operations.…
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While enterprises are spending more on infrastructure than ever before, what goes up must come down
The datacenter industry may be starting to feel the effects of the economic slowdown, leading to further impacts on IT vendors and other suppliers, according to reports, while operators in the UK in particular are feeling the pain from rising energy costs.…
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@CEO, that macro looks sus, amirite?
Microsoft's Excel is to continue its march to be the coolest software kid on the block as @ mentions move closer to general availability for the desktop version.…
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Billions in funding at stake as PM hopeful Liz Truss says bloc 'in breach of agreement'
The UK government has launched formal consultations with the EU over the failure to secure its inclusion in the EU's €95.5 billion ($97.6 billion) research funding program since the island nation left the world's richest trading bloc.…
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Lucy probe is five years away from getting a closeup of Polymele's satellite
NASA scientists working on the Lucy mission, humanity's first exploration of the "Trojan" asteroids that orbit Jupiter's Lagrange points, have found a moon around one of the asteroids the probe will visit.…
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Desktop environment celebrates milestone birthday with a beta
The two original developers behind the GNOME project started work 25 years ago, and the 43rd version of their brainchild is nearly here.…
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Saaaaandia, where the wind comes sweeping 'cross the sea …
A novel offshore wind turbine design has been waiting for the right modeling software to come along to help make it a reality, and scientists reckon they've finally built it.…
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Precedent essentially meant that search results could be considered defamatory, which is dumb
Australia's High Court has overturned the 2020 decision that search results pointing to news stories make Google a publisher.…
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Two trusts saw nearly $18 million go up in smoke when Sensyne Health was delisted from AIM
Two NHS hospitals in the UK have lost nearly £15 million ($18 million) between them due to the collapse in value of an AI startup.…
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Does it hope to run Doom on the Moon or something?
NASA has awarded a $50 million contract to Microchip Technology, the microcontroller giant, to develop next-generation processors that will enable space computers to be 100 times faster than they currently are.…
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Testimonials from Russian generals not welcomed by DJI or Unitree Robotics
Russia's military has praised civilian grade Chinese-made drones and robots for having performed well on the battlefield, leading their manufacturers to point out the equipment is not intended or sold for military purposes.…
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Results are rubbish on Earth, but Mars United could be undisputed champions
Rocketry, energy, automotive, AI, tequila, tunneling and (maybe) social media entrepreneur Elon Musk has proclaimed his intention to buy Manchester United — the organization often cited as the world's most supported football club.…
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Rubbishes suggestions poisoned clones or ancient malware are worthy reasons for ban
Developers of the open source VideoLAN media player have started sniping at India's government over an apparent block on the project's website.…
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There's some pocket change in it for you, if you can crack this nut
DARPA – the US government's boffinry nerve center – is offering up to $10,000 to programmers who can whip up some AI to help find rare earth minerals on our home world and ease US supply constraints of critical materials needed by the energy and defense industry.…
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谢谢 美国!
US Commerce Department can make all the noise it wants about limiting tech exports to China, but it is reportedly doing little to actual stem the flow of components and equipment.…
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Sign-on you crazy diamond
RubyGems.org, the Ruby programming community's software package registry, now requires maintainers of popular "gems" to secure their accounts using multi-factor authentication (MFA).…
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It's the fifth Chrome zero-day patched by Google this year.
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New chips, new cameras, and the death of the iPhone mini are all possibilities.
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Dealmaster also has the Xbox Series S, 8BitDo gamepads, and board games.
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High Court finds Google isn't a publisher, says "a hyperlink is merely a tool."
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A modern, thoughtful update to the visual novel concept for disaffected Gen Z.
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Kernel and WebKit bugs can allow arbitrary code execution on Apple's devices.
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"The ambition of the show was to make it an eight-hour Tim Burton movie."
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Cultural, structural changes to shift focus from scientific publishing to public health action.
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Ryzen 7000 and Zen 4 will be a big overhaul for AMD's successful Ryzen CPUs.
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Pilot program reduced banned parties in Australia by 35 percent, company says.
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VPNs on Apple mobile devices reportedly keep connections open and expose data.
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Intel, Micron set to cut capital spending despite new law aiming to boost production.
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It’s more than just a showcase of the company's latest EV technology.
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"Breakthrough science is possible."
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Finland avoided some of the mistakes made elsewhere and opened its waste repository.
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Anti-vaccine org calls dip in childhood vaccination a pandemic "silver lining."
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It's not that Google doesn't like RSS, it just wants RSS to look like Google.
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Samsung's 8th Generation V-NAND memory looms to production.
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A team of researchers from China managed to entangle two different quantum memories across a 12.5 km distance in an urban environment, bringing the promise of a quantum internet closer.
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Tesla is growing its Ampere GPU powered AI supercomputer for now, but ultimately plans to replace the processing power with its own Dojo D1 ASICs forged on TSMC N7.
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Corsair has teased its first PCIe 5.0 SSD, showing speeds of up to 10,000MB/s. Full specs and release date weren't shared, but we expect it may launch this winter.
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A lucrative contract to make spaceflight processors has gone to Microchip Technology, Inc. of Arizona.
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A new image of a Ryzen 7000 qualifying sample has surfaced online. The image is a shot of AMD's upcoming Ryzen 7 7700X 8 core CPU.
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TSMC's N3 fabrication process to enter high-volume manufacturing in September.
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Even technologies which could be useful to the communist party controlled military are waved through. Critics say something must change to rebalance trade vs security concerns.
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We help you find RTX 3080-powered gaming laptop deals.
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Both the AW2523HF and AW2723DF feature a retractable headset hanger.
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Intel finally unveils its business-oriented NUC 12 Pro 'Wall Street Canyon' compact PCs.
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Large Bitcoin mining companies have made large losses, but continue to take out loans and refinance.
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Maurício Pessoa is using a Raspberry Pi Pico W to send alerts through Telegram when his doorbell is triggered.
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The Mavix M9 chair costs $1,000, but you get what you pay for. It puts other gaming chairs to shame with its comfort and ergonomic adjustments.
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The Loupedeck Live, Loupedeck CT, and Loupedeck+ consoles are excellent, highly-customizable tools for streaming, video editing, and beat-making, but the right one for you is situation-dependent.
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Tachyum proposes to build a 20 exaflops supercomputer based on its Prodigy processors by 2025.
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You've put 100+ hours into Vampire Survivors and now what? Spellbook Demonslayers is what and there's a free prologue available for you to try out.
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Blossom Tales 2: The Minotaur Prince is a new Native Linux release from Castle Pixel and Playtonic Friends. It hasn't been Steam Deck Verified yet but works great.
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Looking for some games to play on Steam Deck that are good, work well and don't cost too much? Here's a few choice picks from me to you.
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Airships: Conquer the Skies is a wonderful Native Linux indie game about constructing various vehicles and conquering everything you can with them.
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Not long after a bunch of changes rolled out to Preview and Beta, Valve has updated the Steam Deck Client software with various improvements.
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Recently it was noticed that users on more bleeding-edge Linux distributions that updated saw Easy Anti-Cheat no longer working on Linux, the culprit was glibc and now a Valve developer has spoken out about it.
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The apt-get upgrade and dist-upgrade are both used for upgrading the installed packages. So, what's the difference?
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Curious to know the latest market share percentage for Linux desktop? You don't have to do the research, we've done it for you.
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18 people and businesses charged, one giant web of connections
America's financial watchdog has accused 18 individuals and shell companies of using compromised brokerage accounts to manipulate stock prices to rake in $1.3 million in illicit profits.…
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Big Blue certainly seems blue about letting any of these claims go to trial
IBM has settled the age-discrimination case brought against it by the widow of a sales executives who took his own life after being laid off.…
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You'll need a new motherboard, RAM, beefier PSU. But hey, at least GPUs are cheap again
AMD’s Ryzen 7000-series microprocessors will officially launch later this month during the company’s “together we advance PC” virtual event, where CEO Lisa Su and CTO Mark Papermaster will showcase the chipmaker’s Zen 4-based CPU cores.…
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Mandate starts in September, staff say its about 'fear of worker autonomy'
Apple has told its workforce they must come into the office for at least three days a week from September to get back to "in-person collaboration."…
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For when a GCP Local SSD is just not quite reliable enough
Chat platform Discord delivered a playful slap to Google yesterday with a post describing how the company dealt with "reliability issues" to achieve some impressively low latency.…
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Two different kinds of fraud, says judge while throwing out lawsuit against insurer
A Minnesota computer store suing its crime insurance provider has had its case dismissed, with the courts saying it was a clear instance of social engineering, a crime for which the insurer was only liable to cover a fraction of total losses.…
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Still waiting for 22H2? Have a 21H2 release preview to tide you over
Remember 2021? Microsoft does, and has emitted a fresh build to the Windows Insider Release Preview channel for Windows 10 21H2, with a few useful fixes, including one where Edge will stop responding when Internet Explorer mode is on.…
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Samsung, SK hynix, Micron benefit most but there are signs that pricing and shipment growth are weakening
The DRAM industry saw an increase in revenue for the second quarter of 2022 as some suppliers managed to expand the total bits shipped, but the PC and mobile markets weakened in response to inflation, while the server memory market continued to hold up.…
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A boon for administrators having to deal with Apple hardware while also keeping everything secure
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint's Tamper Protection in macOS has entered general availability.…
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Double the bandwidth of previous gen and 6x reduction in power consumption
Broadcom says it has doubled the capacity of its merchant switch silicon with the launch of the 51.2Tbps Tomahawk5 ASIC this week.…
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Bad guy also got SMS verification codes, and re-registered one of the numbers they searched for
The security breach at Twilio earlier this month affected at least one high-value customer, Signal, and led to the exposure of the phone number and SMS registration codes for 1,900 users of the encrypted messaging service, it confirmed.…
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Japanese Hayabusa-2 probe samples reveal coarse-grained phyllosilicates that may have served as 'cradles' for organics and water
Scientists examining samples from the asteroid Ryugu retrieved by the Japanese Hayabusa-2 probe have concluded that Ryugu is a drifter from the outer solar system.…
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Opening was delayed during that pandemic thing
Microsoft Azure launched a long-awaited new cloud region in Doha, Qatar, on Monday.…
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Seaborgium targeted dozens of orgs this year alone
Microsoft said it disabled accounts used by Russian-linked Seaborgium troupe to phish and steal credentials from its customers as part of the cybercrime gang's illicit spying and data-stealing activities.…
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Let's hope DALAS procurement is a tad more sensible than its soap opera namesake
The UK government's commercial wing has begun to set up a contracting agreement set to be worth up to £4.5 billion ($5.4 billion) for application software services supporting the nation's tax collector.…
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Industry set to readjust to new realities of raising cash
The second quarter of 2022 has seen more than nine times the number of layoffs from tech startups than the first, according to industry figures.…
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Did someone say ECC on an SBC?
That Raspberry Pi 4B feeling a bit pokey? Asus' Aaeon division has managed to fit an eight-core Xeon processor, complete with error correcting memory (ECC) support, and a PCIe 4.0 x8 slot into a four-inch single board computer.…
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Education Department planned to buy 70,000 laptops, blew its budget and bought just 40,000
When COVID-19 closed schools in The Philippines, the nation’s government acted to ensure its teachers had the kit they needed to keep working by allocating funds to acquire nearly 70,000 laptops.…
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Superconductive hybrid magnet claimed to be 4,500 times stronger than a fridge stick-on
Chinese scientists claim to have broken the record for producing the strongest steady magnetic field, one that's at least a million times more powerful than planet Earth's, using a superconducting system. …
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Scorching weather sees scarce juice diverted to aircon instead of laptops and lithium
A heatwave in China has disrupted operations at laptop component makers and assemblers in Sichuan province and the municipality of Chongqing this week, creating the possibility of further problems in tech supply chains.…
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Somebody went after crypto-centric companies’ outsourced email but the damage was felt in the cloud
Junior cloud Digital Ocean has revealed that some of its clients’ email addresses were exposed to attackers, thanks to an attack on email marketing service Mailchimp.…
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OceanBase 4.0 is derived from tech behind Alipay and is MySQL compatible
Ant Group, the financial services company spun out of Chinese tech giant Alibaba, has created a database it's claiming is a speedy and scalable alternative to MySQL, and will soon market it widely in China and beyond.…
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Always look on the bright (oh God, they are so bright) side of life
The US Air Force is giving $1.9 million to SpaceX to test if Starlink can support military bases in Europe and Africa.…
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Let alone the ones with 123456 to login. How sophisticated do attackers really need to be?
Thousands of machines on the public internet can be remotely controlled via VNC without any authentication, a cybersecurity vendor has reminded us this month.…
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Corn-y demo heralded as right-to-repair win
At DEF CON 30 on Saturday, an Australian who goes by the handle Sick Codes showed off a way to fully take control of some John Deere farming machine electronics to run first-person shooter Doom.…
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Landmark stones recorded low-water levels during droughts to warn future generations.
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NoA full-timers accused of "using the tester pool of associates as a dating pool."
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Some streamers report multiple swatting attempts weekly.
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The best-selling console has sat at $299.99 for an unprecedented five-plus years.
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22H2 includes security upgrades, redesigned Task Manager, and other refinements.
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Twitter must produce documents from a fired executive—but Musk wanted a lot more.
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Anti-rollback enforcement disables downgrades for Google's latest devices.
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What looks like Google's next mesh Wi-Fi router could offer better backhaul.
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Keyboards build on Drop's November release of LotR keycap sets.
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Bandwidth was set aside in 1999, but V2X has been an abject failure.
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You and the trillions of microbes in your gut can live in harmony.
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Test comes after delays due to Russia, China tensions.
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We killed the last thylacine about a century ago. Can we correct that mistake?
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Despite quality typing, power users may want more features.
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Retail giant hits out at US regulator’s tactics in probe into Prime memberships.
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“The world is beautiful and horrible, at exactly the same time…”
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TeleTracking, which has personal ties to Trump, made over $50M in federal contracts.
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Workers allege that casteism influences how companies hire and promote talent.
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A new report has come in detailing a 15% drop in hard drive sales volume for the past quarter, thanks to weakened demand in the consumer market.
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AMD X670E-based AM5 motherboards from Asus listed, ready for next-generation Ryzen 7000-series processors and starting at $670.
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The Chinese supercomputer OceanLight has just made it into the top five finalists in the Gordon Bell prize, steadfastly facing the premier US Frontier exascale supercomputer.
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Prolific robotics firm releases first robot with two programmable arms.
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Intel's Arc A380 is no longer locked behind Chinese borders, with the GPU now apparently shipping to the United States.
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Samsung’s curvy big “personal gaming theater” offers thrilling features like cockpit mode, sound dome technology, a remote dial OSD controller, and a $3,499 price tag.
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Nvidia’s Ampere graphics cards are reportedly set to get cheaper in the coming weeks, ahead of the Ada Lovelace RTX 40-series launch.
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A new 7-Zip benchmark result reveals a 60% performance improvement for the 13900K in decompression tests, and 20% in compression tests in comparison to the 12900K.
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Grgo Mariani has created a pocket-sized gaming console using the Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller as its main processor.
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ASRock’s Z690 Extreme WiFi is a well-rounded option in the crowded $200 space. It offers three M.2 sockets, eight SATA ports, dual Ethernet ports, integrated Wi-Fi 6E, and a quality last-gen audio codec. The all-black look and bright RGB lightning help the Extreme stand out inside your chassis.
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Valve has today released Proton 7.0-4 after a short period in public testing, this brings further compatibility of Windows games on Linux desktop and Steam Deck.
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Across the Obelisk is a fantastic deck-builder that just left Early Access, as the first game under Paradox Interactive's new publishing label Paradox Arc.
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Titan Shell is an in-development twin-stick shooter from Meatbag Studio that blends in features from roguelikes / rogue-lites to offer a pretty interesting experience not many such shooters give you.
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Axiom Verge 2 from Thomas Happ Games has jumped over from the Epic Store to Steam and it comes with Native Linux support and it is also Steam Deck Verified!
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Love your cute and colourful little adventures? Dreamed Away from Nicolas Petton / Pineapple Works looks like it's worth keeping an eye on.
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Backpack Hero is a dungeon crawling roguelike where you need to constantly sort out your small backpack and it's absolutely sucked me in.
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ChimeraOS continues to improve the couch-gaming experience for Linux with ChimeraOS 34 out now and there's quite a number of improvements and fixes.
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Valve has put out a small upgrade for the Steam Deck in the Beta and Preview channels that seeks to improve the offline mode.
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I have experimented with a number of markdown editors and there are plenty of good ones there. However, I took an instant liking to Marktext. Here's why!
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Tech watchdog group worries iGiant will 'Sherlock' device manager
Apple is preparing to compete unfairly against enterprise device management firm Jamf, an advocacy group claimed on Monday, and has asked regulators to take a stand.…
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Cryptographically signs pics – but you'll pay $2,500 before you've bought a lens
Sony has announced a new camera feature that the electronics goliath claims will make digital images immune to secret manipulation and forgery.…
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Lawyers, journalists sue super-snoop agency and Spanish security biz
The CIA illegally spied on US citizens while they visited WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London, a lawsuit filed today has claimed.…
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Rolling back to the pad tomorrow, the SLS might finally take flight in August
NASA's huge Space Launch System (SLS) will get its three launch attempts in the coming weeks after officials approved an extension to validation of the Flight Termination System from 20 to 25 days.…
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The arrest comes days after US Treasury levies sanctions against the crypto mixing service
Dutch authorities have arrested a software developer suspected of working with Tornado Cash, a cryptocurrency mixing service that only two days earlier was sanctioned by the US government for allegedly laundering money for ransomware operators and other cybercriminals.…
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Not mentioned: China. Obvious target: China – even if the country hasn't designed advanced chips
The United States is formally banning the export of four technologies tied to semiconductor manufacturing, calling the protection of the items "vital to national security." …
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South Dublin County Council ban on buildouts set to be overturned by government
Trouble is brewing in Ireland as a ban on datacenter buildouts in the Dublin area has reportedly been challenged by one developer, while Amazon has now been granted permission for two new facilities near the city amid growing concern over the amount of energy bit barns consume.…
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Have your BitLocker key handy when updating, but maybe not on a Post-it stuck to the screen, OK?
Windows users are reporting BitLocker problems after installing last week's security update for Secure Boot.…
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Plan to regain semiconductor production market share may be a case of too little, too late
Analysis The long-awaited US CHIPS Act has finally been signed into law by President Biden, unlocking $52 billion in funding to boost the American semiconductor industry as a part of the broader $280 billion CHIPS and Science Act. Now the industry has to make good on its promises in a market where inflation is rapidly stifling demand.…
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Newly formed Tahoe Research Limited will seek to license them to third parties
Intel has entered into an agreement with IPValue Management Group that sees nearly 5,000 patents transferred to a newly formed company within the group that will seek to license them to third parties.…
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Directs customers to Maintenance Reset Utility so they can continue to print
Epson has clarified the dread "end of service life" inkjet printer warning with an updated support page directing users to its Maintenance Reset Utility after critics complained about repairability.…
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Second quarter revenues at zero, though should jump to $12m following successful flights from Cornwall
Virgin Orbit is burning less money, although it won't be launching quite as many rockets as originally hoped.…
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Tim Peake set to return to ESA as the race to first vertical launch from British soil continues
Feature It promises to be a busy few years for British spaceflight. Astronaut Tim Peake is due to return to the European Space Agency (ESA) and the UK's first vertical launches are set to take place in Scotland.…
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Of all the non-carbon energy options we have, this is the only one which can keep the lights on
Opinion What's GIF got to do with nuclear reactors? Commercial development of atomic power plants had largely stopped by the 1980s; even so you could do better than Deluxe Paint for your blueprints. Yet the connection is much more modern, to do with projects like the revival of molten salt tech as a new hope for zero-emission power.…
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Brute force and ignorance does not win the day
Who, Me? We've all heard the one about the cleaner in the hospital pulling the wrong plug. But managing to push back the schedule by months through sheer brute force? Welcome to Who, Me?…
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Beijing lifts the lid on how Alibaba, Douyin, Tencent, Baidu do business – and censor content
Beijing's internet regulator, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), has released information about the algorithms that some of the nation's biggest tech companies use to make their services work.…
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Government said they need the Samsung boss back at work to deal with South Korea’s looming economic crisis
South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol issued a widely anticipated pardon for Samsung heir and vice chairman Lee Jae-yong that came into effect today.…
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Local startup can make it happen over 150km
India's military has celebrated the nation's Independence Day by announcing it will adopt locally developed quantum key distribution (QKD)technology that can operate across distances of 150km.…
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Presiding officer was not impressed by Cupertino's arguments or behavior
Apple has been ordered to repair a MacBook Pro that displays all the symptoms of FlexGate – the syndrome of screen defects that the company has previously repaired for free – but which the company does not believe has the problem.…
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COVID, flood surfing, crowds – what to pick?
Black Hat As last week's hacker summer camps would down it's clear that attendee numbers are still well down on the pre-COVID days, although things are recovering.…
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Don't read the diffstat too closely, says Linus Torvalds – it's mostly another massive AMD update
Emperor Penguin Linus Torvalds has released the first release candidate for Linux 6.0, but doesn't mind what you call it.…
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PLUS Vietnam's massive infosec push; Philippines telco fight; Australia dumps COVID app; and more
Asia in Brief Elon Musk has written an article for the Cyberspace Administration of China's flagship magazine.…
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No message, profile, or other data exposed—but SMS remains a weakness.
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"We can use this system to do quantum simulations of electrons and superconductivity."
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Apple's ads business has been a stop-and-go affair, but it's ready to go again.
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Advertisers have to verify abortion services, but not businesses, on Google Maps.
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DirectX9 is still in relatively wide use, given that it's 20 years old.
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The rocket may launch just two weeks from now.
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Move would help it meet its carbon emissions plans.
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Lola built some of the best racing cars in the world but went bust in 2012.
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Not a massive overhaul, but it adds Material You features, Bluetooth LE Audio, & more.
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Feature you'd normally want for secure software opened a huge hole.
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Three-game collection for $599 will have some unfortunate edits.
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"He isn't pale; he is gray. He doesn't look tired; he looks ancient."
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In the finale of our experiment, we look at how the low/no-code tools performed.
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Exploit now provides root access to two popular models of the company’s farm equipment.
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Eukaryotes, archaea, and bacteria share a set of proteins that block many viruses.
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If you're building a new PC, you may be able to use an old Windows key for its OS.
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A Linux expert has reported that Alder Lake laptops sporting the MIPI IPU6 are suffering from Linux compatibility issues surrounding proprietary drivers. Full open source drivers are a long way away.
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Appeals to potential customers to “save your neck and your desk space,” by opting for this decidedly different dual-24-inch clamshell display on a stand.
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The developer decided to go public with this Switch-fan OS work now that the milestone of the first playable commercial game title has been reached.
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Nvidia has reportedly restarted production on its RTX 3080 12GB SKU, as a result of oversupply issues surrounding its GA102 die.
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A tiny embedded system that supports a range of Intel processors.
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The Asus ROG Chakram X is a stunning example of a gaming mouse, but has some major issues that should deter just about anyone.
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GNOME 43 Beta is now available for public testing ahead of the September 21st, 2022, release of the GNOME 43 desktop environment series. Here's what's new since last month's GNOME 43 Alpha release.
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Valve has confirmed that they are (again) increasing the amount of people that will be invited to purchase a Steam Deck.
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THQ Nordic, 3D Realms and Slipgate Ironworks recently revealed Tempest Rising an upcoming classic RTS and after watching the trailer I absolutely need this.
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Probably one of the best spaceship building sandbox games around, Avorion has just grown tremendously with the Into The Rift DLC out now.
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Following from the successful Kickstarter campaign in 2020, Caligari Games have announced their Burton-style point and click adventure will release on September 15.
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Kitsune Zero is being releases on September 12 as a paid DLC for the free platformer Super Bernie World. This will act as a prequel to the upcoming standalone game Kitsune Tails.
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Bottles is easily the most simple way to manage installing and running Windows games and apps on Linux outside of Steam. A new release is out now with plenty of useful tweaks.
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Canonical announced the release of Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS which brings together an updated download with all the bug fixes, updated apps, driver upgrades and more.
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Heroic Games Launcher enables you to download games on Linux and Steam Deck from both the Epic Store and GOG. A big new release is out now with some massive new features.
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News has been doing the rounds for a little bit about Easy Anti-Cheat (EAC) suddenly not working after system updates for some users, turns out it's an issue with glibc.
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The apt-key is being deprecated and your system knows that. But do you know what you should be doing for getting packages from external repositories?
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Intel has made the decision to remove native DirectX 9 support from its latest Xe iGPs and Arc GPUs, and replace DX9 with DX12 emulation instead.
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MSI’s MPG X670E Carbon Wi-Fi is about €620, and the MSI Pro X670-P Wi-Fi about €410 on average. Converting to USD and taking off VAT would give pricing of $495 and $320, respectively.
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Preliminary Ryzen 7000 prices are here and are roughly 10 to 12% higher than Ryzen 5000 was at MSRP.
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Maker and developer Pheux9558 is using a Raspberry Pi to power a custom CNC drawing machine with the help of an Arduino and recycled PC components.
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The Raspberry Pi Pico W is mostly found powering maker projects, but in this how-to we use it to build an extremely low power web server.
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NIST-led engineers are working on building a real-time alert system
AI could help save firefighters' lives by predicting fire flashovers before they occur, according to new research published this week. …
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Do we want to recognise machines as authors?
The creative nature of neural networks is leading some to consider whether it might be worth changing current US laws that only grant copyright protection for works created by humans.…
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Plus: How Google is using language models to improve search, and watch Heinz's AI ketchup advert
In-brief Another day, another rogue AI chatbot on the internet.…
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Audacity is an incredibly useful tool for quick audio edits. Here's how you can install it on Linux and use it for audio recording and background noise removal.
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Wine is a compatibility layer that aims to let you run games and applications designed for Windows on Linux and a new release version 7.15 is out now.
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Need more games to fill up your library? Humble Bundle have put up another one that looks pretty good with the Tactical Combat Bundle. So here's what to expect on Linux desktop and Steam Deck.
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With Spider-Man Remastered now available on Steam after previously being PlayStation exclusive, I took it for a spin on Steam Deck and Linux desktop.
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Intel has changed the prize pool in its GPU-focused scavenger hunt to include an alternative Core i5-12600K or Core i7-12700K prize for the original Arc A750 and A770 prizes.
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From an MSRP of $999 to astronomical crypto-boom era prices nearing $2,000, multiple Radeon RX 6900 XT options are now available for $699.
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All of today's desktop CPU benchmarks compared, including Intel's 12th-Gen Core series and AMD's Ryzen Zen 3 and Threadripper.
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Using the free audio editor, Audacity, learn how to restore old recordings and improve audio clarity.
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The Ikki68 Aurora R2 is an excellent, mid-tier custom keyboard kit. It’s on the pricier side, especially for its lack of battery, but for that money, you get exceptional customization to ensure you find the typing experience you’re looking for. It looks, sounds, and feels great to type on.
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Dealmaster also has the Xbox Series S, Apple Watch Series 7, and Nvidia Shield TV.
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The book The Short Story of the Universe really does have it all.
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Researchers have proposed a variety of theories to explain symptoms of COVID long-haulers.
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FDA says yes to the tests
AI software capable of mapping tumor tissue more accurately to help surgeons treat and shrink prostate cancer using a laser-powered needle will soon be tested in real patients during clinical trials.…
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Tl;DR - the news isn't good
Black Hat In Brief Victor Zhora, Ukraine's lead cybersecurity official, made an unannounced visit to Black Hat in Las Vegas this week, where he spoke to attendees about the state of cyberwarfare in the country's conflict with Russia. The picture Zhora painted was bleak.…
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Don't have the budget or customer base for Graviton-class silicon? Intel thinks it can help
In a quest to deliver better application performance and greater efficiency, many software and hardware vendors are turning to custom silicon to achieve their goals.…
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Six years on web devs finally settle on sensor privacy defenses
Six years after web security and privacy concerns surfaced about ambient light sensors in mobile phones and notebooks, browser boffins have finally implemented defenses.…
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There goes the weekend...
A high-severity Palo Alto Networks denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability has been exploited by miscreants looking to launch DDoS attacks, and several of the affected products won't have a patch until next week.…
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Company insists it's doing so 'to honor people’s App Tracking Transparency (ATT) choices'
Meta's Instagram and Facebook apps on iOS devices have been injecting JavaScript code into third-party websites from their custom in-app browser, gaining access to data that would be unavailable were those pages loaded in a stand-alone, WebKit-based iOS browser.…
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Don't feed the trolls? Users deem policy an attack on conservatives, dystopian, and election manipulation
Twitter has announced its plans to fight misinformation during the 2022 US midterm elections, including activating its Civic Integrity Policy (CIP).…
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Fashion Police chipping in on the bounty related to costliest strain of ransomware on record
The US government is putting a face on a claimed member of the infamous Conti ransomware group as part of a $10 million reward for information about five of the gang's crew.…
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The discovery could help scientists further understand the origins of life
Moon meteorites found on Earth contain trace gasses that lend further support to the widely held belief that our largest natural satellite formed from chunks of our planet that were ejected in a massive impact.…
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Another $13.7m handed out to researchers, but then again it does have an awful lot of attack surfaces
Microsoft appears to have beat Google on the bug bounty front, with $13.7 million in rewards spread out over 335 researchers.…
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26,000 engineers and call center operators to down tools again this month
The union representing upset BT workers has served notice on the one-time UK state owned telco that tens of thousands of engineers and call center operators will down tools for two more days of strikes this month.…
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Repurposes logic originally used for spotting variations in voltage, timing in older circuits to help performance
Black Hat Intel has disclosed how it may be able to protect systems against some physical threats by repurposing circuitry originally designed to counter variations in voltage and timing that may occur as silicon circuits age.…
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Ad behemoth committed to 'providing the most helpful products possible'
Google is being ordered to pay A$60 million ($42.5 million) in penalties to Australia's competition and national consumer law regulator regarding the collection and use of location data on Android phones.…
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Advanced's infrastructure still down and out, recovery to take weeks or more
Advanced, the MSP forced to shut down some of its servers last week after identifying an "issue" with its infrastructure hosting products, has confirmed a ransomware attack and says recovery will be in the order of weeks.…
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A new Windows esport event: Opening Outlook
Outlook sometimes goes wrong and even Microsoft occasionally can't work out why, judging by a freshly published Microsoft 365 support article.…
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Hello customer, can I help you? Ha ha, just kidding, of course I won’t
Something for the Weekend "That's it! I've had enough of this! I'm leaving!"…
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No Clippy, though, and that philosophy only seems to go so far
Microsoft open-sourced most of its emoji library this week.…
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Termin-what? Why can't I connect directly to the network
On Call Is a Loose Cannon worse than a Big Cheese? What happens when the two are combined? Stir in some overconfidence and you have today's entry in the On Call archives.…
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OSIRIS-Rex saw this happening. An odd meteorite suggests why and how
In 2019, scientists clocked something they'd never seen before: an asteroid named Bennu appeared to be popping off swarms of pebbles. Research published Thursday may go some way to explain why.…
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The renewed agreement more than doubles the DoD's deal with Joby Aviation
A flying taxi company with plans to take to the skies by 2024 has just received a $45 million cash infusion from the United States Department of Defense to explore military applications.…
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Some got so cranky waiting they made a t-shirt celebrating the 'CLOUD-6999' Jira ticket
On July 8, 2011, Atlassian Cloud posted a Jira ticket titled "Allow custom domains for Cloud apps".…
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But warns 'upcoming major release of vSphere' will break some plugins
It's not often that a double dot release of a product adds significant functionality, but VMware did just that on Thursday with version 4.4.1 of its Cloud Director Availability product, which adds the ability to migrate aged and unsupported versions of vCenter to the cloud.…
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Required customers to pay for software they did not receive, among other sins
Australia’s Federal Court has voided 34,000 contracts that Fuji Xerox’s local outposts offered to local small business customers, after they were found to be unfair in many ways.…
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Time to call in the legal team
Black Hat Dylan Ayrey, a bug hunter and CEO of Truffle Security, discovered a big data company credential dump containing personal information belonging to about 50,000 of its users, and still hasn't fixed it. …
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Got thoughts on the online panopticon? The FTC wants to hear
The US Federal Trade Commission on Thursday announced an effort to formulate privacy rules to deter unwelcome online monitoring and shoddy data security.…
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Most organizations don’t have the financial resources necessary to address ransomware and other cyberattacks, BlackBerry says
Black Hat Many organizations are increasingly unprepared to deal with the skyrocketing costs of a ransomware attacks, at a time when the number of incidents and the payments demanded by cybercriminals are rising rapidly.…
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'Until someone has to go to jail for doing it wrong the teeth are not going to be the same'
Black Hat video The security industry needs to take a leaf from the manual of an industry where smart incident response is literally life and death, if it is to fix systemic problems.…
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It can move without anything to push off from, but only via curved spacetime
A team of scientists from Georgia Tech say they've built a robot that can move without anything to push against - a discovery that seems to violate the law of conservation momentum. …
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Meanwhile, officials in London reported finding poliovirus over 100 times in sewage.
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The smallest consumer OLED TV LG makes currently measures 42 inches.
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Supported or not, new or old, this is everything you need to know.
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"We're watching stellar evolution in real time."
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Samsung hasn't changed the Galaxy Fold battery density for four years, and it shows.
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Plan came after GOP complaints, but FEC says it doesn't violate ban on contributions.
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Scientists opposed whaling and secretly tracked its toll.
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Printer makers have a history of invasive practices that hurt user repairability, experience.
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Lee's ascendancy to Samsung chairman position key to "vitalizing the economy."
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It's not just Stadia, either; non-Google streaming rivals also get featured.
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"One of the questions that we’re getting a lot is, 'How full are you guys?'"
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Unvaccinated people no longer need to quarantine and physical distancing is de-emphasized.
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Think you're too smart to be fooled by a phisher? Think again.
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Company with notable footage-sharing issues wants to do it more, but funny.
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Angstronomics reveals the potential specifications for AMD's looming RDNA 3 silicon.
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Gen 2 X-NAND technology may increase the throughput of our SSDs at no extra cost, according to a California company.
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Intel develops Tunable Replica Circuit technology to prevent non-invasive physical glitch attacks.
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A new codename from AMD known as Pink Sardine has emerged in Linux. The codename may correspond to AMD's upcoming Ryzen 7000 Phoenix mobile APUs.
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New laptops from German firm XMG include Ryzen 9 CPUs and external liquid cooling.
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It clocked at 3.1 GHz but consumed only 17.4W. It is a telltale sign that a volt-mod is behind the impressive 55% overclock compared to the stock 75W Arc A380 graphics card.
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Dmytro Panin uses a Raspberry Pi Pico to monitor MacBook stats by outputting data to a Pimoroni Pico Display Pack module.
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AMD's final 96-core EPYC 9654 'Genoa' processors are presumably shipping to the company's partners.
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Mingda’s Magician Pro is an easy to use printer with a massive build volume.
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LG brings a new screen shape to the market with its 28-inch DualUp 28MQ780. It’s a 16:18-aspect IPS panel with 2560x2880 pixels, HDR and a wide color gamut. It’s the same as stacking two 21-inch screens vertically, except there’s no line in the middle.
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Pre-Production BitBlaze Titan notebook based on Russian Baikal-M CPU demonstrated.
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AMD makes big gains in desktop, mobile and server CPU markets.
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Good news for Linux and Steam Deck fans, the yuzu team have worked to bring the installer for the Nintendo Switch Emulator over to Linux properly.
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Horizon Chase Turbo is a very highly rated retro racing game from developer AQUIRIS and today it sees a huge free upgrade.
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Hollow Knight developer Team Cherry has announced that an update due to go live on Monday, August 15th will bring a much needed change to the saving system.
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Valheim is due to get a huge upgrade at some point, which most players are now waiting on and Iron Gate have given the smallest of teasers on it again.
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Love Resident Evil and want to get a whole lot of it? Humble Bundle have put up the Resident Evil Decades of Horror bundle and it's a pretty full collection.
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While I was briefly away camping, Valve released a few Steam Deck Beta updates so here's a round-up of what's new in case you also missed it.
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You can use these tools to get dummy email addresses to share with third parties. Your actual email address is not exposed.
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Out of nowhere, a "GTX 2080" prototype has surfaced online. It gives us a clue that Nvidia was considering extending its GTX 16 series lineup into an 80 series product.
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YMTC starts shipments of enterprise-grade PE310 PCIe Gen4 U.2 SSDs with Xtacking 2.0 3D NAND.
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Alperen Akküncü has created a custom PCB that turns the Raspberry Pi Pico into a DAQ 4-channel oscilloscope tool.
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Cooler Master reveals two new cases in its CMP lineup, featuring front mesh panels and ARGB fans.
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Ethereum today successfully transited its last testnet, Goerli, towards the final code to be implemented in mainnet. The software update to Ethereum's Virtual Machine will enable the transition to Proof-of-Stake, besides other upgrades.
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Highlighting precise DRAM chip error locations could open up repair and salvage options. Only works on Intel Alder Lake DDR5 and Z690 platforms for now.
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If you want to play games or watch Netflix on a massive 34-inch screen, Dell's S3422DWG monitor for $389 is a fantastic option. Back down to its Prime Day sales price, this is the cheapest we've seen this widescreen beast.
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AMD recently updated its AMF H.264 encoder with a new feature called Pre-Analysis, this feature boosts video quality equal to that of Nvidia's Turing and Ampere-based NVENC encoder.
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Razer’s DeathAdder V3 Pro is a lightweight wireless gaming mouse that’s highly customizable and incredibly ergonomic.
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Chinese trade associations claim that U.S. CHIPS Act and Science law will intensify semiconductor geopolitical competition.
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Jared Mauch’s rural FTTH service quickly expanded from 1 to 30 customers and currently has 70. But he now has $2.6m of government funding to allow provisioning for nearly 600 customers.
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Intel shares new gaming benchmarks for the Arc A750 graphics card at 1080p and 1440p on various DirectX 12 and Vulkan titles.
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The inside scoop on the Ukrainian IT army, and what could happen next
Black Hat The hacktivist attacks that have occurred during the ongoing war in Ukraine are setting a dangerous precedent for cyber norms — and infrastructure security, according to journalist and author Kim Zetter.…
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OCSF initiative will give enterprise security teams an open standard for moving and analyzing threat data
Black Hat AWS and Splunk are leading an initiative aimed at creating an open standard for ingesting and analyzing data, enabling enterprise security teams to more quickly respond to cyberthreats.…
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Federal Election Commission votes to let Google allow campaign email through filters
The US Federal Election Commission on Thursday voted 4-1 to allow Google to create a program exempting qualified political email from Gmail spam filtering, despite emphatic objections from email users.…
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Plus, spoiler alert: ransomware is gonna get a lot worse
Black Hat video It turns out that ex-CIA chief information security officers don't spill secrets at bars in Vegas. Or via Zoom, while pretending to be at a Black Hat cocktail party.…
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Identity of a real person was used to lend credence to a package that dropped cryptominer in memory
Sonatype has unearthed yet more malware lurking on PyPI, this time a fileless Linux nasty designed to mine Monero and using the identity of a real person to lend credibility to the package.…
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Don't want the services? You'll still have to pay for them, activated or not
Drivers in the US and Canada are in for a bit of sticker shock as General Motors has made three years of its OnStar subscription service mandatory in many new vehicles at a cost of $1,500.…
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Dell'Oro sees traditional NICs being displaced for most hyperscale cloud infrastructure
SmartNICs are expected to play a significant part in growing the Ethernet adapter market, which is forecast to reach $5 billion by 2026, according to research outfit Dell'Oro.…
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Failing to fix flaws, a crowded threat group scene, RaaS, and dependencies among crooks are fueling the trend
Security experts spent years warning enterprises to expect cyberattacks and to plan their defenses accordingly, now Sophos researchers are saying organizations shouldn't be surprised if they get attacked multiple times.…
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RHEL SHA-ll speak unto RHEL… except from 9 to 6
If you're running a mixture of new and old RHEL versions, you may have problems SSHing from new to old. Luckily, someone has worked out a handy way around it.…
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Even those within the agency puzzled by the SpaceX decision when 'we have the technology to improve lives now'
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has rejected Starlink's application for subsidies under the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund program.…
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Technically the chip giant already owned the tech due to real inventor’s contract, according to DoJ
The US Department of Justice has charged four people with conspiring to fraudulently sell a startup for $150 million to a San Diego based multinational tech company that The Reg has identified as Qualcomm.…
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You might need to free up 24GB. A bug for now, but might be sign of way things are going
Remember when you could run Windows from a floppy disk? The latest Windows 11 Dev Channel Insider build could need at least 24GB of free space to download and install.…
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Paving the way for the role of AI in the future of nuclear waste processing
UK telephony outfit British Telecom has won a five-year deal for networking at the Sellafield nuclear site in northwest England.…
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More customers also adopting the server maker's green computing products, CEO says
Supermicro, server provider to the hyperscale cloud providers, has delivered better than expected figures for its fiscal Q4 2022, attributing it to a growing number of customers adopting its rack-scale solutions.…
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The collaborative effort pits supercomputers against the agency's corrosive reactor research
After more than 50 years, molten salt nuclear reactors might be making a comeback. The US Department of Energy (DoE) has tapped Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to lead a $9.25 million study into the structural properties and materials necessary to build them at scale.…
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Internetwork of satellite networks advances to 'actually building' stuff stage
DARPA's attempt to build an internetwork of communications satellites – which operates under the fabulous name Space-BACN – has tapped Intel, SpaceX and others to build kit that will make its planned "Space-Based Adaptive Communications Node" a reality.…
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Voice-phished their way in, but Switchzilla claims no damage done
Cisco disclosed on Wednesday that its corporate network was accessed by cyber-criminals in May after an employee's personal Google account was compromised – an act a ransomware gang named "Yanluowang" has now claimed as its work.…
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Invested $20 million in 2000 and will pocket $34 billion and keep a slice worth more than that – for now
Japan's SoftBank Group will offload almost half its holdings in Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, netting over $20 billion to help it record a profit but casting doubts over Alibaba's prospects.…
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You may have had your fill of chips – but AWS, GCP, and Azure are still hungry, analyst tells El Reg
The hyperscalers and public cloud providers are barreling ahead, unfazed by a rapidly deteriorating economic outlook, according to a recent Dell'Oro Group report.…
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The Open Network for Digital Commerce could hardly ask for a more credible participant
Microsoft has decided to open a store in India's Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) – an effort the nation hopes will make it harder for the likes of Amazon and Walmart-controlled Flipkart to dominate e-commerce in the world's second most populous nation.…
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Ethical hackers, but for privacy programs
Black Hat Miscreants aren't only working to exploit flaws in an enterprise's security posture, they're also looking for holes in organizations' privacy programs to steal user data, according to Meta's Scott Tenaglia.…
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Guess what? Open source security still has gaps
The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF), as its name plainly states, aims to help make open source software more secure, but improvements flowing from its efforts are hard to find.…
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Lawyers at Google are unsure if they can patent chip floorplans created by machines
The question of whether AI-generated outputs can be patented is impacting how technology companies can protect their intellectual property.…
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Black Hat kicks off with call for single infosec agency with real clout and less confused crossover
Black Hat It's time to reorganize the US government and create a new agency focused solely on on digital risk management services, according to former CISA director Chris Krebs.…
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iMessage talks to Android users via outdated SMS/MMS, ad giant complains
Google has launched a campaign to pressure Apple to adopt Rich Communications Services (RCS), a protocol used by most mobile industry vendors but not the iPhone maker.…
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Australian scientists find first biomechanical evidence for a long-suspected idea.
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The Sub Mini was expected any day, but it's been pushed back.
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That's one way to say you're not necessarily raising prices, Disney+.
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Musk tells judge Twitter isn't producing names of employees he wants to question.
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Thousands of adult entertainers claim they were added to a "blacklist."
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A750 will be less competitive in older games, but it will all come down to price.
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Rulemaking action already has support, but some want Congress to act first.
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E2EE prevents anyone other than the sender and receiver from reading messages.
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The new Razr looks a lot like the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip.
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Plate tectonics may have its origins in impacts, based on new data from Australia.
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Ahead of a rumored shift to businesses, the video-calling device broadens its appeal.
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There are vulnerabilities in 5G platforms carriers offer to wrangle embedded device data.
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Research has implications for urban gardening and food production.
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The healthy boy died a week after falling ill with the tricky-to-diagnose infection.
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A quick tutorial about finding the MAC address of various networking interfaces including Bluetooth in Linux. Both command line and GUI methods have been discussed.
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Jon Peddie Research estimates Intel's GPU endeavors have resulting in $3.5 billion in losses and suggests Intel might want to sell it off after multiple failures.
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These are the best gaming keyboards that combine responsiveness, features, and style.
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We've tested the Spider-Man Remastered PC port on a group of AMD and Nvidia GPUs to see how it runs, and have also provided an in-depth analysis of the best settings for smooth frame rates.
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Gigabyte has revealed some new quality-of-life updates for its motherboards, featuring a latchless PCIe slot and a screwless M.2 slot.
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AMD makes big gains in desktop, mobile and server CPU markets.
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MSI releases the world's first PSU, that is compatible with Intel's new ATX 3.0 power supply standard. The new standard focuses on improving power-delivery and reliability, and features 600W power connectors for video cards.
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TrendForce expects consumer DRAM prices to drop 13% – 18% in Q3, then collapse further in Q4.
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SK hynix-owned Solidigm took to the Flash memory Summit 2022 to showcase its working prototype SSD based on Penta Level Cell (PLC) NAND, which promises to bring density increases to a market thirsty for storage.
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Chinese manufacturer LattePanda has taken the covers off its latest SBC, the 3 Delta.
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Intel and Nvidia prepare for big revenue drops as consumer demand falls; AMD and Apple are doing fine.
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You can currently get your hands on Intel's flagship processor, the Core i9-12900KF, for only $499 on eBay saving almost $50 off its usual price.
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Newly discovered side-channel attack recovers 4096-bit RSA key on AMD's Zen-based CPUs.
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The 128TB SSD uses QLC NAND and a PCIe interface.
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be quiet!'s Pure Loop 2 FX brings lots of RGB and a redesigned pump that helps the 360 model perform well in our testing with Intel's Alder Lake Core i9 CPU.
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AMD's next-generation AM5 CPUs to offer 'high bandwidth' and 'low latency' modes.
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2.8 GHz is now the expected frequency ceiling for Nvidia's upcoming GeForce RTX 4070 mid-range GPU. With a base clock estimation of 2310MHz.
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Intel's Ice Lake, Rocket Lake, and Gemini Lake CPUs are vulnerable to ÆPIC Leak vulnerability.
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Biren's first GPUs can challenge Nvidia's A100 GPU in select workloads, at least on paper.
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Stylish, durable NVIDIA Studio laptops featuring 4k displays and NVIDIA RTX GPUs are ideal for students and creatives with processing-intensive workflows
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After service's June revision, we review how poorly its "classic" library is going.
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The technology has drawn scrutiny from privacy activists and politicians.
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Visitor accounts, artwork describe exact locations of three mass graves
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FCC: "Nascent" Starlink tech has capacity limits, may not deliver required speed.
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When it comes to echo chambers, TV trumps online.
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ISP's history suggests you can expect only limited availability in each area.
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LG Display says new OLED panel is brighter and more euphonious than rivals.
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The Mid-Infrared Instrument needs to be at 7 Kelvin to work.
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Dealmaster also has Wacom tablets, the Apple Pencil, the Surface Pro 8, and the iPad Mini.
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Designs will be useful for incorporating emoji into apps, art projects, and more.
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Musk has now sold $15.4 billion worth of TSLA shares since agreeing to buy Twitter.
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You lose the rotation bezel, but you gain somewhat confusing temp monitoring.
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Good news for ultrawide screens, ray tracing, and Steam Deck. Bad news for lesser PCs.
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Samsung's foldable lineup gets new chips but otherwise doesn't change much.
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These were the first static fire tests at Starbase in 2022.
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Jared Mauch gets $2.6 million from gov't to expand fiber ISP in rural Michigan.
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Global cases have topped 30,000, and the US is scrambling to vaccinate thousands.
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Unusually resourced threat actor has targeted multiple companies in recent days.
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Yes, there were probes—including an anal probe.
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Google is tired of losing so badly to iMessage, so it wants Apple to adopt RCS.
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Katie Moussouris tells it like it is
Black Hat With the world's largest collection of security folk gathering in Las Vegas for Black hat there are encouraging signs that the US government might actually be getting smarter about hiring.…
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'If your business model depends on more aggressive surveillance, maybe you need a new business model'
Private Facebook chats between a Nebraska mother and her daughter has been used by law enforcement to build a criminal case against the teen for getting a now-illegal abortion in her home state.…
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Attack origins point to April 2021 first strike on Japanese target
The Maui ransomware that has been used against US healthcare operations has been linked to Andariel, a North Korean state-sponsored threat with links to the notorious Lazarus Group.…
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Leave it to the economy to throw another wrench into the semiconductor supply chain
In the US, chipmakers and suppliers are scrambling to find a place in line for the more than $52 billion in subsidies and tax breaks up for grabs but that surge in semiconductor demand appears to be faltering.…
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Supermaterial created from heated scales. Sorry about the smell
Scientists in Japan have figured out a new way to create sustainable LEDs: by microwaving fish.…
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Well, until they find out that you've left, but at least they won't be immediately notified of your every move
Many years ago, in the bowels of Silicon Valley, some genius realized that people enjoy getting notifications through social media – those little pings of dopamine that make you feel like you matter.…
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Disclosing exploits, however, will earn you $100k
Simply finding vulnerabilities and patching them "is totally useless," according to Google's Eduardo Vela, who heads the cloud giant's product security response team.…
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Older operating systems excluded from the 4.8.1 release party
Microsoft has updated its venerable .NET Framework once more, this time to add native Arm64 support while also removing support for some older operating systems.…
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Market immediately reacts as tech titan looks to free up cash for 'unlikely' Twitter deal
Tesla supremo Elon Musk has sold $6.88 billion worth of shares in the auto company, saying it is in case some equity partners exit ahead of an eventual Twitter deal, with both events deemed "unlikely."…
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Attack was foiled by content delivery network's hardware security keys
Cloudflare says it was subject to a similar attack to one made on comms company Twilio last week, but in this case it was thwarted by hardware security keys that are required to access applications and services.…
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Business travel, outside training, and picnic overheads all under watchful gaze of Redmond's accountants
Microsoft is telling staff across the entire business to cast a more watchful eye over expenses in the face of economic uncertainty.…
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Researchers cue up AI sims, code and workloads for Argonne Lab's most powerful beast
Argonne National Laboratory has declared its Polaris supercomputer operational, providing the scientific and engineering community with a powerful new research tool, but also serving as a testbed to prepare for the upcoming Aurora exascale system.…
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International relations are hot as chips, and Taiwan cannot afford to empower China
Taiwanese electronics manufacturer and Apple supplier Foxconn will likely be forced to back out of a $800 million investment in Chinese chipmaker and foundry operator Tsinghua Unigroup, thanks to rapidly deteriorating international relations.…
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It makes perfect sense for enterprises as well as enthusiasts. Just ask GitLab
Opinion I've been preaching the gospel of the Linux desktop for more years than some of you have been alive. However, unless you argue that the Linux desktop includes Android smartphones and ChromeOS laptops, there will be no year of the Linux desktop.…
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The game of corporate poker continues but CWU may find investors more interested in dividends
The union representing BT Group workers protesting over their latest pay award are trying to pull as many levers as possible to force further negotiations, including setting up meetings with the telco's biggest investors.…
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Need a cold shower? This is xNix like Windows users imagine it still is
Version 9.3 of NetBSD is here, able to run on very low-end systems and with that authentic early-1990s experience.…
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Too much junk in the orbital trunk
Debris from a Russian anti-satellite missile is causing chaos in orbit, with shards of ex-spacecraft circling the Earth at perilous speeds.…
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Chinese game devs targeted – maybe data protection laws too
Game engine vendor Unity has announced it will commence operations in China, and has attracted a who's who of local tech giants as investors.…
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Sees sunlit uplands ahead with plans for factory and ITaaS expansions
Lenovo's Infrastructure Solutions Group has reported a third straight quarterly profit, and the company sees better days ahead in the field so has ordered expansion of plants in Mexico and Hungary.…
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Interferometry will be used to turn six toaster-sized satellites into one giant solar observatory
NASA has plans to build a telescope six miles (9.66km) wide in Earth orbit, comprised of a constellation of six toaster-sized satellites. The first of those toasters has just been finished. …
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Trade minister says to expect more of this sanctions-busting stuff starting in September
Iran has announced it used cryptocurrency to pay for imports, raising the prospect that the nation is using digital assets to evade sanctions.…
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If you're looking for free speech or privacy, move along
GitHub over the past week has tested the trust of its users by enacting policies that call into question its commitment to free speech and privacy.…
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Hopes to tap expected growth as it levels up to match rivals' presences
Google Cloud has announced it will build facilities in Thailand, Malaysia, and New Zealand.…
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Far East Cable acted as a broker in between ZTE and Iranian companies, it's alleged
The US Bureau of Industry and Security has accused China's Far East Cable Co. of violating export controls by selling telecommunications equipment to Iran on behalf of supplier ZTE.…
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The memory biz is bracing for a recession-fueled drop in demand
Micron committed to investing $40 billion in new semiconductor manufacturing capacity in the US over the next decade, even as the company warns of financial headwinds due to slipping product demand.…
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Learn how to record your voice, streaming audio or other sounds on Ubuntu and other Linux distributions.
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No macOS is not based on Linux. No macOS is not entirely similar to Linux. Take a look at the similarities and differences between macOS and Linux.
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Oh, and that critical VMware auth bypass vuln? Miscreants found it, too
August Patch Tuesday clicks off the week of hacker summer camp in Las Vegas this year, so it's basically a code cracker's holiday too. …
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Car crunch bites, but relief looks likely
As the chip shortage rolls on, automakers are still hitting the brakes on production, cutting 180,000 vehicles from production worldwide this week alone.…
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American semiconductor manufacturing is back, baby!
On Tuesday, US President Joe Biden signed the CHIPS and Science Act into law.…
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Covid lockdowns, Chinese regulations and SEC threats make Alibaba's job numbers worrying
Alibaba's woes continue, with the Chinese tech giant's latest financial reports indicating it cut nearly 10,000 jobs, or around 3.8 percent of its workforce, in the second quarter of 2022. …
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SpaceX to pick up the slack while the rocket is updated yet again
Russia's invasion of Ukraine is being felt at Northrop Grumman, forcing it to make alternative plans that now include asking Firefly Aerospace to build the first stage of its Antares rocket.…
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AMD Zen chips, meanwhile, are vulnerable to side-channel data scrying
A group of computer scientists has identified an architectural error in certain recent Intel CPUs that can be abused to expose SGX enclave data like private encryption keys.…
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Alliance will hopefully give students path to job as well as backing Intel's Ohio fab plans
A dozen US midwestern research colleges and universities have signed up to a project intended to bolster the semiconductor and microelectronics industries with combined research and education to ensure work for their students in high-tech industries.…
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Campaign group Dawn Project results calculated from small sample size, test done without hands on the wheel
The latest version of Tesla's Full Self Driving (FSD) Autopilot beta has a bit of a kink: it doesn't appear to notice child-sized objects in its path, according to a campaign group.…
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Plus: Crooks swimming around your network, looking for a way in, says Incident Response Threat Report
Security teams are facing down more cyberattacks following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and sophisticated crooks are using double-extortion techniques and, increasingly, deepfakes in their strikes.…
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Patrolling quadrupeds not fitted with 7.62mm tank machine guns – yet
Space Force, the sixth branch of the US military has tasked robot dogs with patrolling its base at Cape Canaveral.…
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SIGGRAPH 2022: Lenovo's ThinkStation P620 only desktop workstation powered by AMD's Ryzen Threadripper
Lenovo has unveiled new mobile workstations based on AMD Ryzen processors, comprising a mid-range model with a 15.6 inch screen, and a 14 inch system pitched as Lenovo's lightest mobile workstation.…
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'AES-based operations might be two times slower' without latest updates
Microsoft has warned that Windows devices with the newest supported processors might be susceptible to data damage, noting the initial fix might have slowed operations down for some.…
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Company had hoped deal would grant access to $300m trust account, but shareholders cleared it out
Quantum computing pioneer D-Wave Systems has completed its planned merger with DPCM Capital, taking the company public on the New York Stock Exchange.…
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Deployment plan includes unified data governance platform Purview
Barclays Bank has selected Microsoft Teams as its preferred collaboration platform, meaning that up to 120,000 of the company's employees and partners globally could be using the service soon.…
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Cyberspace Administration of China closes accounts and removes to 'rectify the chaos'
China's internet regulator, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) vowed on Tuesday to clean up what it sees as bad and blatantly misleading marketing of virtual currencies.…
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Telco promises uplift in capacity and speed once deployed
BT has tested operating four carrier components (4CC) on a 5G Standalone network, and claimed it is the first in Europe to demonstrate this on a live network. The technology will deliver higher capacity and speed to end user devices when eventually rolled out across the entire mobile network.…
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Lords cite 'frequent' policy changes, lack of metrics, post-Brexit funding issues as top issues
How's the UK doing in its ambitions to become a sci-tech "superpower" by 2030? According to a report by the Lords Science and Technology Committee, it's currently on track to make the phrase an "empty slogan."…
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Many sources become one
Multimodal AI models, trained on numerous types of data, could help doctors screen patients at risk of developing multiple different cancers more accurately..…
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Ring-fenced tests planned, despite previous regulatory skepticism about the need for fiat digi-dollars
Australia"s Reserve Bank (RBA) has announced it will try to find applications that justify the creation of a central bank digital currency (CBDC).…
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Encourages 'eco friendly' consumer choices in exchange for discounts
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba launched a tool on Monday that encourages "eco-friendly consumer behavior" by rewarding customers for purchases and "green" activities on its apps with discounts on more stuff.…
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Search, Maps and YouTube later suffer brief outages - nothing as concerning as the injuries suffered by workers
Google's consumer-facing and advertising services have faltered after an incident at one of its major datacenters.…
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Cyberspace regulator's fraud report finds all is not well behind the Great Firewall
Fraudsters in China have targeted a child with promises of allowing them to get around the nation's time limits on playing computer games – for a mere $560, according to the nation's cyberspace administration. Yesterday the CAC detailed some of the 12,000 acts of online fraud perpetrated against minors it handled this year.…
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For those that just can't wait for AV1 encoding
Intel unveiled its answer to the AMD's FirePro and what used to be Nvidia's Quadro workstation GPUs this week with the launch of a trio of new graphics cards aimed at professional applications like architectural design, engineering, and content creation.…
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We're 'highly likely' to see similar attacks, Kaspersky warned
Beijing-backed cyberspies used specially crafted phishing emails and six different backdoors to break into and then steal confidential data from military and industrial groups, government agencies and other public institutions, according to Kaspersky researchers.…
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Patent lawsuits, the next saga
Google hit Sonos with two lawsuits on Monday, claiming patent infringement on seven different technologies associated with smart speakers, as part of its ongoing battle with the audio hardware biz over intellectual property.…
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Being the money launderer for North Korea’s Lazarus Group comes at a price
The US Treasury Department is levying sanctions against Tornado Cash, a notorious cryptocurrency mixer that it says has been used by threat groups like ransomware gang Lazarus to launder stolen digital assets.…
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A teen shared one message, then cops requested all her data without her consent.
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So what is it doing up there? Secret, space-y stuff, of course.
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Seamless gaming controller syncing, USB 3.0 improvements, and more.
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The CHIPS and Science Act authorizes subsidies up to $200 billion over 10 years.
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Tornado Cash banned over money laundering but has legitimate uses as privacy tool.
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Supply-chain attacks are moving GitHub toward digitally signed packages.
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Nokia and Oppo fight over patent renewal fees, just like in a TV carriage dispute.
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The 31.5-inch PA32C targets appropriately sized work, not big-screen entertainment.
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Recent Windows updates can resolve the problem but not undo damage.
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ÆPIC Leak spills users' most sensitive secrets in seconds from SGX enclaves.
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Lawsuits may decide whether most digital assets are illegal securities offerings.
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Online brands reliant on personalised ads ramp back marketing spending.
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In the second part of this three-part series, our heart attack predictions take flight.
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A faulty brake fluid reservoir cap might not vent properly, causing brake failure.
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If it's an analog of mammalian REM sleep, then it evolved very early.
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There is no grace period, so credits effectively end once the bill is signed.
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An anonymous source has provided news outlet VideoCardz with the alleged packaging and pricing for AMD's Ryzen 7000 processors.
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Researchers with the Japanese Institute for Molecular Science have broken the previous record for the fastest two-qubit gate operation ever done in quantum computing.
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As Joe Biden signs Chips and Science into law, Micron and Western Digital prep to establish new R&D and manufacturing operations in the U.S.
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Nvidia has officially released a Game Ready driver for Sony's upcoming feature rich Spider-Man Remastered PC port.
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If you're looking for a gaming laptop at a good price, then this offering ticks a lot of boxes to power the latest and greatest titles.
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Nvidia's RTX 4080 and RTX 4070 have reportedly dropped in estimated power consumption by up to 30%, with the RTX 4080 falling to 320W.
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Small-form-factor PC maker Shuttle has announced a workstation case with an Intel W580 chipset.
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A leaked memo penned by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang looked to reassure its 22,000 employess that no layoffs are planned, following the company's disappointing Q2 results. in fact, it seems Nvidia is opening up its purse strings to better retain its talent.
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A new report has revealed that AMD's mysterious Sabrina project was just an alias for the already announced Mendocino project, featuring Zen 2 6nm SoC's running RDAN2 graphics.
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VAES (vectorized AES) instructions used by apps like like BitLocker should accelerate disk data encryption. But Microsoft has recently had to patch a data damage flaw.
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Overclockers are now receiving AM5 X670E motherboard samples ahead of reviews to overclock AMD's Ryzen 7000 processors.
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Curved 27-inch monitors are somewhat rare, but BenQ’s Mobiuz EX2710R is one of the better examples. It combines a high-contrast VA panel with 165 Hz, Adaptive-Sync, HDR and extended color. And it delivers a smooth and responsive gaming experience.
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Two Point Campus is the next game from Two Point Studios and SEGA, the same lot that gave us Two Point Hospital. It comes with Native Linux support and works on the Steam Deck right away.
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Here's a very interesting development for the world of the open source Godot Engine, as a new company named W4 Games has been formed to push it further than ever before.
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The developer of ZONERS certainly had an interesting pitch when introducing their new game over email and it turns out it's pretty fun.
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The popular Avatar the Last Airbender series continues to have an influence on game developers, with Emberbane being announced as an upcoming pixel action-platformer with combat revolving around a mixture of four elements with unique abilities.
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Do you love your point and click adventures? We have another to highlight with Justin Wack and the Big Time Hack that will have Native Linux support.
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Nine Noir Lives is an upcoming point and click adventure game that follows feline private investigator Cuddles Nutterbutter. A new brief trailer is out, showing off a very important game mechanic.
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After the recent SteamOS 3.3 release, it came with some unfortunate performance issues for the Steam Deck that Valve continues to address.
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Looking for Fedora derivatives? Here are best Fedora based Linux distributions.
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It's "a revolutionary scientific advance in molecular data storage and cryptography."
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Series' 2-player mode has been hidden behind simple button commands.
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Debate over the American Innovation and Choice Online Act will resume this fall.
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Cheaper GPUs are good for gamers but bad for Nvidia's bottom line.
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Where one sheet link can be the difference between success or elimination.
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"Our cadence today is 100 percent driven by market demand."
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Surveys suggest most LIS patients are happy. Researchers want that more widely understood.
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Debate will happen at the Delaware Court of Chancery.
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After losing a volume control lawsuit, Google hopes it can get leverage over Sonos.
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Fitbit points PC syncers to Pandora, Deezer subscriptions for downloading music.
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77,000 studies were scoured to map the pathways.
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NHTSA is investigating bike deaths as California says Tesla statements are "untrue."
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Possible outcomes run the gamut from "more delays" to outright cancellation.
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DMV goes after manufacturer and dealer licenses
The California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) last month filed two complaints against Tesla alleging that the car marker violated state law by misrepresenting that its vehicles can drive autonomously.…
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The line for chip susidies and tax breaks is getting longer by the minute
Qualcomm says it is doubling investments in US chip manufacturer GlobalFoundries in a bid to secure additional wafer capacity with government money on the table.…
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Comms giant says several other firms targeted in 'sophisticated attack'
Twilio confirmed a breach of the communication giant's network and accessed "a limited number" of customer accounts after tricking some employees into falling for a phishing attack.…
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'Time to update your spreadsheets,' expert says of 'inscrutable' changes
AWS has introduced tiered pricing for its Lambda serverless computing platform, claiming this will save on monthly costs for customers who use it to operate large workloads. It will, however, likely add to the complexity of estimating costs for many developers hoping to run a project on AWS.…
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Don't panic if you're not a fan of big changes… it's 5.20 by another name
The next version of the Linux kernel is jumping version numbers, with some performance gains, but it's not a major change all the same.…
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It's hard to make things out there when dust-sized particles can destroy them
The US Federal Communications Commission is looking at how it can help kickstart manufacturing in space, but said orbital debris needs to be addressed first.…
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Gaming product sell-through projection declines but datacenter division sales soar
The slowdown in retail spending is taking a toll on Nvidia, which is reporting hefty double digit declines in its Gaming unit, and charges of $1.32 billion, primarily related to inventory and the wider economy.…
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You can be a big fish in a big ocean or a small fish in a tiny pond with two leviathans.. how times changed
A former TSMC executive has described how a collaborative effort towards 450mm (18-inch) wafers for manufacturing chips was halted when the company realized it would put them in direct competition with Intel and Samsung.…
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Free Forever, or Free Until We Decide It Isn't policy criticised in filing
A putative class action lawsuit has been filed against Google in California by early adopters who are unhappy about the ads company's decision to demand fees for its Workspace productivity suite.…
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Stock market losses lead to write-downs at Vision Fund, but chip designer IPO a ray of light
Chip designer Arm booked record revenues for the Q1 ended June 30 and was one of the bright spots in an otherwise loss-heavy start to fiscal 2023 for Japanese parent SoftBank's Vision Fund.…
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Users who created shared invitation links for their workspace had login details slip out among encrypted traffic
Did Slack send you a password reset link last week? The company has admitted to accidentally exposing the hashed passwords of workspace users.…
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Google says this is ‘modern’ computing – if so it feels like a backward step
I spend a lot of time in a browser – for years I've used half a dozen pinned tabs to provide easy access to web apps like The Register's CMS and TweetDeck. But when I tried Google's browser-centric ChromeOS Flex I immediately lamented the lack of apps and came to despise Chrome.…
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Git back, git back, git back to where your files belong
GitLab is chewing on life's gristle. The problem, we hear, is that deadbeat freeloaders are sucking up its hosting lifeforce. The company's repo hive is clogged with zombie projects, untouched for years but still plugged into life support. It's costing us a million bucks a year, sighed GiLab's spreadsheet wranglers, and for what? …
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Almost taking the fall for another person's mistake
Who, Me? Brickbats and bouquets are the way of things in the world of IT. Consider today's Who, Me? entry where our hero nearly fell on his sword when a bug bounty might have been more appropriate.…
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Company declares operations are normal and rebuts allegation Beijing crimped component deliveries
Taiwanese electronics manufacturer and Apple supplier Pegatron has issued a statement on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSWE) to refute reports it was forced to suspend operations after Chinese authorities stopped supplies reaching its facilities.…
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Minister laments Dell, HPE and pals have the market locked up and little incentive to change
India will tweak the incentive scheme it offers to manufacturers of enterprise hardware after disappointing uptake.…
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Nascent platform provides miscreants an easier and cheaper way to launch remote access, DDoS, and other attacks
A platform that makes it easier for cyber criminals to establish command-and-control (C2) servers has already attracted 3,000 users since launching earlier this year, and will likely expand its client list in the coming months.…
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Satellites end up in 'unusable' orbit
India’s small satellite launch vehicle (SSLV) made a spectacular debut launch on Sunday, but the mission fell short of overall success when two satellites were inserted into the incorrect orbit, rendering them space junk.…
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Baidu gets the fare in Chongqing and Wuhan
China has issued two licences for robot taxi operations, according to local tech giant Baidu.…
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Chinese phone makers' tax deals probed; PayPal back in Indonesia; Boeing seeks sustainability in Japan; and more
Asia In brief India's parliament will this week debate a bill that would see the nation's competition regulator add officers with technology industry expertise to its ranks, and gain the power to review and veto takeovers.…
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After only being available for a few months now officially and with Valve still going through the reservation queue, the Steam Deck has hit 4,500 titles officially marked Verified or Playable.
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Once again Humble Bundle have something that's quite interesting with a nice mixture of sci-fi stuff in the Final Frontier Bundle.
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After currently being in Early Access for around 10 months, Despot’s Game: Dystopian Army Builder is set to fully release for all platforms on September 15.
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Want to play something somewhat resembling Minecraft with excellent modding support, that's also free and open source? Minetest is what you need and a big new release is out now.
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In case you didn't already know Linux Mint 21 is officially out now with editions that come with the Cinnamon, MATE or Xfce desktop environments.
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Nvidia is discounting its RTX 30-series GPUs at a steep rate, in an apparent attempt to deplete its overabundance of 30-series GPUs prior to the 40-series launch.
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You can get your hands on an Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti FE at Best Buy for $399, making it one of the cheapest 3060 Ti's on the market currently.
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Nvidia's preliminary results look bad, but back in May Jensen Huang insisted that the GPU market was “so different” to the market which was severely impacted during the previous crypto crash.
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Micron kicks off volume production of 24 GT/s GDDR6X memory, just in time for Nvidia's
GeForce RTX 40-series launch.
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Three new AMD Ryzen Pro 5000 series chips revealed with up to 8C / 16T, no graphics, and with TDPs of 65W or lower.
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These are the best portable monitors to ponder if you're looking to expand real estate for your laptop.
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Dillon McCardell has created a Raspberry Pi-powered door unlocking mechanism that uses facial recognition to unlock doors automatically.
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AMD's Threadripper Pro 5995WX and 5975WX barrel into the workstation market with 64 cores, 128 threads, eight memory channels, and class-leading performance.
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The Acer Predator Helios 300 is a strong gaming laptop with a competitive price, but it makes a few sacrifices along the way.
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Amsterdam is a great city to enjoy a beer, or two. However, after you had your beers and you’re strolling down the streets, you might...
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Want to control your music using a beautiful widget on Linux? Sunamu is for you to try! It can even detect and show lyrics for currently playing music.
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EVGA is selling a couple of custom GeForce RTX 3090 Ti graphics cards below MSRP.
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Telefrag Entertainment has created a custom voice assistant system using Jarvis on a Raspberry Pi with video output to an old Sony TV-511 television.
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Suing your subcontractor is not something you do every day.
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From designing the robot to 3D printing we show you the tools and talk you through the steps to build a Raspberry Pi robot.
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We put the spacious 4TB Crucial X6 portable SSD through our expansive test regimen to see how it stacks up.
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Plus: Meta launches prototype AI chatbot, and cities reverse facial recognition bans
In brief The UK's Home Office and Ministry of Justice want migrants with criminal convictions to scan their faces up to five times a day using a smartwatch kitted out with facial-recognition software.…
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A step-by-step screenshot guide demonstrating how to upgrade to Linux Mint 21 from Mint 20. It also has steps for upgrading to Mint 20 from the Mint 19 version.
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Plus: That Twitter privacy leak, scammers send Ubers for victims, critical flaw in Cisco gear, and more
In brief DuckDuckGo has finally mostly cracked down on the third-party Microsoft tracking scripts that got the alternative search engine into hot water earlier this year.…
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And if you train your own AI model for it, you can worry less about licensing
Updated GitHub Copilot, one of several recent tools for generating programming code suggestions with the help of AI models, remains problematic for some users due to licensing concerns and to the telemetry the software sends back to the Microsoft-owned company.…
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What it's like bargaining with criminals ... and advising clients suffering their worst day yet
Interview The first rule of being a ransomware negotiator is that you don't admit you're a ransomware negotiator — at least not to LockBit or another cybercrime gang. …
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Find it next to the Cybertruck, Boring tunnel maps, Twitter acquisition and my sense of commitment
If Elon Musk's claims made during Tesla's shareholder meeting this week are accurate, get ready for that humanoid robot he promised, some self-driving software update, and an overhauled Cybertruck. Then again, this is Elon we're talking about.…
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That's the way the Cook he crumbles
Apple, which celebrates its self-professed commitment to free expression and human rights, has reportedly told its suppliers in Taiwan to label their components so they describe Taiwan as a province of the People's Republic of China (PRC).…
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Yeah, they do have a habit of being in places where they are no longer welcome
Russia's space agency has signaled it may well continue maintaining its chunk of the International Space Station to potentially as far out as 2030. Or as early as 2025.…
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IT solution provider Advantech reveals unannounced AMD Ryzen 5000 Embedded processors.
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MSI-made PC systems featuring up to an Intel Core i5-12400F and Arc A380 are suitable for eSports gaming or popular internet café games titles but come with prices approaching $650.
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Intel has killed off its exotic packaging for the Core i9-12900K and Core i9-10980XE, replacing them with smaller boxes found in its non-flagship models.
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Which cheap graphics card deserves your money?
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Here's the Ryzen 7000 release date, benchmarks, specifications, pricing, and all we know about AMD's Zen 4 architecture.
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An Intel Core i9-13900K sample was seen clocking as high as 5.77 GHz in a recent Geekbench 5 benchmark result.
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Dealmaster also has discounts on the Apple Pencil, PS5 games, and Beats earbuds.
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Hot on the heels of Proton 7.0-4 getting a Release Candidate, Valve has put up a new build of Proton Experimental and it's quite an exciting one. This is the special version of Proton you can try, that often pulls in new features and fixes earlier to get more Windows games working on Linux desktop and Steam Deck.
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Search privacy company still needs Bing, but won't allow Microsoft's trackers.
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Tehran-linked hack of a NATO member is a significant escalation.
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Whatever you do, don't get the water in your mouth.
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After 8 years, 100 races, and nearly 1,000 points, Lucas di Grassi knows his stuff.
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Retro keyboards commemorate some of Sega's most memorable brands.
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Twitter files answer to Musk's counterclaims in case over broken merger deal.
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"We've made a few key decisions."
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This $55 module could put a homebrew router into the palm of your hand (literally).
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Amazon says it wants to help customers handle chores like vacuuming.
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"Union Carbide most certainly has a contract with Camden."
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It may be impossible to remove the games from the IPFS blockchain.
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Hackers can disrupt legit warnings or issue fake ones of their own.
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The world's largest fighting game tournament is live all weekend long.
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Whether you’re spending $500 or $4,000 on components, we’ve picked out the perfect parts for your next PC build.
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A new RTX 4080 rumor was just Tweeted out, suggesting the previous 10,000+ CUDA core count for the 4080 was wrong. The estimated core count now sits at 9728.
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Major technological players AMD, Intel and Nvidia have all reduced their pace of new hires in context of the worldwide economic downturn.
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If you have a Nintendo Switch in the house, you now have two spare Bluetooth PC game controllers. Available in the beta client for now, alongside improved Nintendo Online Classic controller support.
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Hardware leaker reveals the specifications for AMD's forthcoming Ryzen 7000 (Raphael) processors based on the Zen 4 microarchitecture.
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Looking for the best wireless mouse for productivity? These are our top picks for cable-free work.
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AMD Ryzen 7000 and AM5 motherboards are confirmed to be launching on September 15th, just a month away from now.
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TSMC denies any changes with N3 expansion plans.
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Power your rig with a Corsair RM750 (2021) PSU for $99. Get a powerful heart for your PC for less.
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Ingenuous hacker uses Raspberry Pi and Arduino boards to output a Linux Terminal on a typewriter form the '80s.
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Intel's poor performance on its Arc GPUs surrounding DirectX 11 games, will be a constant issue, that will take a lot of time to work out.
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The partners are encouraging students, hobbyists, engineers, start ups and others to bring the spark of open-source innovation to the hardware realm.
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HighPoint's SSD7749E E1.S RAID card promises extreme speeds and extreme capacities for workstations and servers.
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Rsheldiii (aka Bob) is using a Raspberry Pi to power his custom, 3D-printed TV that plays Twitch streams automatically as soon as they’re live.
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The Z690-A GAMING WIFI D4 is the least-expensive route to a ROG-based board. It sports a unique silver appearance and comes handsomely appointed. You get capable VRMs, four M.2 sockets with six SATA ports, quality audio and integrated Wi-Fi 6. But priced at just over $320, it’s pricier than its peers.
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Here are the best cheap 3D printers available today.
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Dell often drops impressive PC and laptop deals, from the latest and greatest Alienware gaming rigs to XPS laptops.
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Asus, ASRock, Biostar, Gigabyte, and MSI reveal upcoming AM5 motherboards for AMD's Ryzen 7000-series Zen 4 (Raphael) processors.
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The Feds may see things differently
Cryptocurrency bridge Nomad sent a message to the looters who drained nearly $200 million in tokens from its coffers earlier this week: return at least 90 percent of the ill-gotten gains, keep 10 percent as a bounty for discovering the security flaw, and Nomad will consider this a "white-hat" hack, as opposed to plain old theft, and not take legal action.…
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Can Pat stop the rot – or is the chip giant facing a Kodak moment?
Comment Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger's carefully assembled house of cards is collapsing around him. And it's not really that surprising when you look at the hand he's been dealt.…
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DEF CON may be about to blow lid off security hole
The US government is warning of critical vulnerabilities in its Emergency Alert System (EAS) systems that, if exploited, could enable intruders to send fake alerts out over television, radio, and cable networks.…
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Two lightweight distros get updated after extended pauses
Slax, one of the lightest-weight Linux distros around, and Peppermint OS, a web-centric Debian remix, both put out new versions this week.…
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Folk of flash meet in person as Compute Express Link 3.0 debuts
Flash Memory Summit The Flash Memory Summit 2022 was held as an in-person event again this week for the first time since 2019, at the Santa Clara Convention Center San Francisco, showcasing the latest developments in memory and storage.…
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Set hyperdrives for the Chorizos system ... oh actually it's baloney
A French scientist's spicy tweet fooled the internet into believing a slice of chorizo was a detailed picture of a star captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. …
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Suspected cyberattack at Advanced takes down part of server estate that hosted range of apps
Updated Tech services provider Advanced has taken part of its infrastructure offline as it tries to contain a suspected security incident, with a range of hosted applications not available to health customers, including NHS 111 emergency services.…
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Buys up land to train and entertain space tourists when they do start
Virgin Galactic (VG) is once again delaying its commercial service, shifting the expected launch of well-to-do space tourists from the first three months of 2023 to Q2, amid widening losses for the business.…
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Beijing-backed PR firm is behind at least 72 ersatz web titles, Mandiant says
A Beijing-backed PR firm has been accused of being behind at least 72 fake-news websites and social media accounts pushing pro-China propaganda and criticizing the US and its allies. …
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An app will always find a way to interrupt what you’re doing
Something for the Weekend Mme D and I are in the cellar, listening intently. Nothing.…
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I have bigger problems than where you put our code
On Call Be careful where you install stuff, and who is doing the installing. Welcome to an On Call in which normal service is interrupted by a military intervention.…
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At least Switchzilla thinks they're salvageable, unlike the boxes it ordered binned back in June
Cisco has revealed four of its small business router ranges have critical flaws – for the second time in 2022 alone.…
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Moon probe will play BTS to test space internet. Also for fun
South Korea's first lunar orbiter, which is about to test disruption-tolerant, network-based space communications, successfully made contact with its Australian ground station after launching on Thursday.…
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Years after the company quit server virtualization, but may be handy for hybrid work
Citrix has added a development stream to its hypervisor that promises fast and frequent enhancements, plus a cloud service to deliver them to users.…
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Starts chasing industrial digitization as its next big opportunity
Alibaba's cloud operation thinks it's reached market saturation among China's big internet companies, but sees a new wave of demand coming from industrial outfits.…
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Now makes vague pledge to shove inactive repos into slow object storage
Updated GitLab has reversed its decision to automatically delete projects that are inactive for more than a year and belong to its free-tier users.…
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I got played via the Play store
Last October, California resident Jacob Pearlman downloaded an Android version of a cryptocurrency wallet app called Phantom from the Google Play app store.…
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Valve are preparing to ship the next version of Proton, their compatibility layer that runs Windows games on Steam Deck and Linux desktop with Proton 7.0-4 having a Release Candidate ready to test.
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Godot Engine, the free and open source full game development engine has a big new release available with version 3.5.
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A huge advancement for the PlayStation 3 emulator project RPCS3 as it now has support for RPCS3, which is pretty awesome.
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As Valve expands the Steam Deck into Asia, they've begun a series of interviews and one on video with IGN Japan was quite interesting so here's the main points.
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Steam is ever-improving and constantly expanding what is supported by Steam Input. Just recently they added a new Steam Client Beta with support for the Nintendo Joy-Con controllers.
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A pleasant surprise for Crypt of the Necrodancer fans! SYNCHRONY, a new DLC for Necrodancer, released today into early access.
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Frick, Inc. is an amusing game with a name that's slightly silly because it's fricking frustrating too. The developer, Kenney, has made it free to grab on itch.io for 24 hours.
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Licencing snafu sends American invention overseas
When US national laboratories develop a new technology, Uncle Sam is supposed to ensure it is commercialized in America. But that's not what happened with what's said to be a breakthrough battery design. …
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Like a Geiger counter but for surveillance cameras
With an estimated billion surveillance cameras capturing people's daily activities, chances are you're regularly recorded if you live in a densely populated area.…
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These might be the 5nm Zen 4 desktop processors due to land this quarter
AMD's Ryzen 7000 desktop processors will reportedly top 5.7 GHz in the case of the Zen giant's top-of-the-line 7950X, when they launch later this quarter.…
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There'll be a welcome in valleys of Wales for language translation
It's been a busy week for Microsoft Teams, as the Windows giant unveiled a version of the platform optimized for Apple Silicon as well as simplified human language translation for scheduled meetings.…
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More expensive than a Pi but with a lot more oomph, platform to be embedded in devices at the edge
Nvidia is rolling out a production module of its Jetson AGX Orin platform, designed to be embedded inside devices and enable AI acceleration for a variety of applications such as robotics and edge computing.…
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If you're on the HWE stack, you'll get the Jammy kernel*
Updated Ubuntu 20.04 is nowhere near end of life, but 22.04 is starting to hit its stride.…
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Kyndryl and DXC Technology report declining revenues and worsening bottom line
Infrastructure service providers Kyndryl and DXC Technology are off to an inauspicious start in their new financial year, recording double digit revenue declines as cloud giants continue to eat into their sales.…
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Alleges Oracle did not register the patches it claims were infringed
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has come out swinging two months after a $30 million verdict against it in a long-running case, saying claims by Oracle it directly infringed copyrights in the Solaris OS are not backed by enough evidence.…
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The next server you buy will support it, but what's it good for?
After more than three years of development, compute express link (CXL) is nearly here. The long-awaited interconnect tech will make its debut alongside Intel's upcoming Sapphire Rapids and AMD's Genoa processor families.…
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Bit barns threatened by malware flingers, but fire, storms, or bad guys arriving at the sites are also bad news
Proposed legislation in the US will seek to ensure greater protection for government datacenters from the threat of cyberattacks, but also physical dangers such as natural disasters and terrorism.…
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Controversial visit to Taiwan continues to reverberate through cyberspace, the real world, and the semiconductor industry
Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense confirmed it was hit by a DDoS attack on Wednesday in what has been an eventful week for the island nation, US-Sino relations, and semiconductors.…
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And it only took 16 ASICs
As port speeds creep ever higher to support larger hyperscale workloads and bandwidth-hungry 5G applications, Fortinet says its latest generation of firewalls should keep even the largest data flows safe from would-be attackers.…
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Social media suspected as shares surge 20,000 percent and company admits there's no good explanation
An obscure Asian financial services startup's share price has exploded, seemingly after social media users decided to pile into the stock.…
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We kept network running 'safely and effectively' on those days, nothing to see here, says Brit telco
The two days of strike action by BT call center operators and engineers at the Openreach subsidiary should act as a “wake-up call” to the executive management team at the British telco but no further dates are yet scheduled.…
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Thanks, we'll take any good news, large or small, right now
Vid The aviation industry's attempts to go green are getting a boost from an unlikely place: carbon-neutral jet fuel pulled from thin air.…
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Tech giants and digital rights groups didn't like it, but at least it was a law
The government of India has scrapped the Personal Data Protection Bill it's worked on for three years, and announced it will – eventually – unveil a superior bill.…
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Simple to exploit, enough to pocket $3,000
A Danish ethical hacker was able to work his way uninvited into a closed Cloudflare beta and found a vulnerability that could have been exploited by a cybercriminal to hijack and steal someone else's email.…
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Plan to educate the children turned out to be a 'won't someone think of the children?' moment
The UK's Parliament has ended its presence on TikTok after MPs pointed out the made-in-China social media service probably sends data about its users back to Beijing.…
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Accenture roped in to find the weakest link
One of the world's most prominent and mission–critical uses of the blockchain - The Australian Securities Exchange's (ASX) project to replace its CHESS core trading systems with a distributed ledger – has struck further trouble.…
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SOL holders literally S.O.L.
Millions of dollars worth of Solana cryptocurrency and other tokens were stolen from seemingly thousands of netizens this week by thieves exploiting some kind of security weakness or blunder.…
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Hopes to save a quarter of hosting costs by binning repos that haven't been touched for a year
Exclusive GitLab plans to automatically delete projects if they've been inactive for a year and are owned by users of its free tier.…
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Or just see it as preparing them for the future
What with American students increasingly subject to surveillance software, 15 advocacy groups want the US Department of Education to set monitoring policies that are consistent with civil rights laws.…
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Because Musk purchased Twitter as an individual, his friends are "fair game."
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5.9 RC1 Build 1999 focuses on modernizing Winamp's foundation for more features.
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Exact boost amount still unclear—but early analysis suggests it's great news.
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This work may set an upper limit on just how large neutron stars can become.
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Microsoft says it will roll out incrementally "in the coming months."
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The US has the largest monkeypox case tally of any country in the world.
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"It was very heartening to hear the support across the board of the partnership."
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Confidential settlements could lead to more terminations of Internet subscribers.
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Visa can now only be used on MindGeek sites featuring "legal adult entertainment."
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Duo is being rebranded to Google Meet, and old Google Meet is still sticking around?
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Intel sees enough time before Wi-Fi 7's release date to improve processing speeds.
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It's too early to assume Thread products mean easy compatibility—or Matter support.
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Chattanooga is now assembling the EV crossovers with 62 kWh or 82 kWh packs.
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The company wants to treat EV motors like a beating heart.
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Some employees say Apple’s HR team puts company reputation ahead of worker welfare.
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SHARPEXT has slurped up thousands of emails in the past year and keeps getting better.
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More people are getting seriously ill as BA.5 floods country and protection wanes.
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As Intel delays volume production of Meteor Lake's GPU Tile, TSMC might need to reconsider expansion plan.
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A team of Chinese researchers put 512 GPUs and a "super algorithm" through their paces in an attempt to solve the same theoretical problem that Google crunched with its Sycamore quantum computer back in 2019. The result proves that there's still a long way ahead for quantum supremacy - but the road is being walked as we speak.
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Innosilicon's Fantasy II is an entry-level low-power 1.5 TFLOPS GPU, set to compete against Nvidia's GeForce GTX 1630.
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Alienware's Aurora R13 is reduced to $1,736 at the moment. This particular version sports the latest Intel 12th Gen Alder Lake Core i7-12700F CPU, which is one of the best CPUs for gaming, and also has graphics powered by an Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti.
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A new video featuring a delidded 13th Gen Core i9-13900 engineering sample has confirmed the die size of Intel's new Raptor Lake architecture. With a size slightly lengthier versus Alder Lake.
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Intel’s European facilities will cover a wide gamut of semiconductor essentials; from R&D and design in France, to chip fabs in Germany, and packaging and assembly in Italy.
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Arseny has created a new way to log terminal commands on the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W by printing the interactions in real-time on a thermal receipt printer.
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Popular Linux distro Fedora will support the Raspberry Pi 4 family with version 37.
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Here are the best Intel and AMD motherboards for all the recent processors. These boards offer great features and performance, according to our rigorous tests.
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We help you find the best 3D printers for beginners, under $300 and more.
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VideoLabs sues PC makers over video processing patents infringement.
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We put the Kingston IronKey Vault Privacy 80 external SSD through a full gamut of testing to see how it stacks up.
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Here are the gaming laptop deals we've seen.
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We're rounding up the best deals on CPUs.
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These are the best SSD and HDD deals — guaranteed to expand the storage on your PC without emptying your wallet.
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The Gigabyte UD750GM won't give any trouble to the competition, but it has a reasonable price tag.
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Valve is opening reservations for the Steam Deck in Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan. It says it can do this without affecting estimates for North America, Europe and the UK.
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Soptify provides official support for Ubuntu and Debian. So, how do you get the Spotify desktop application on Arch Linux?
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Ready for another beautiful and engaging looking metroidvania? Loved Hollow Knight? You should keep an eye on Nara: Facing Fire that's live on Kickstarter.
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Songs of Syx is a fantasy city-builder that made a bit of a splash at release selling a few thousand copies pretty quickly, but as always many more games appear and some fall off the radar but Songs of Syx continues expanding.
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Last Call BBS, the final game from the clever people at Zachtronics has left Early Access and is out now along with Native Linux support.
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Oxygen Not Included is not getting any more DLC, Klei Entertainment has announced. Instead, they're going to keep pumping out free updates for all players.
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A little while ago Valve showed the current top 10 most played games on Steam Deck and now we have an update on what people are currently playing.
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Some huge news for the future of the Steam Deck, as Valve has announced a teaming up with Komodo for the release of the Steam Deck in Asia.
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Wi-Fi 7 may make Ethernet obsolete already in 2024 if everything goes well.
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Intel's Serpent Canyon NUC 12 systems pair 12th Gen Alder Lake CPUs with Arc A-Series mobile GPUs.
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A Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5995WX 64-core chip has officially broken the Cinebench R23 world record holder with a multi-threaded score of over 11,600 points.
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Our GPU benchmarks hierarchy ranks all the current and previous generation graphics cards based on real-world gaming tests. Find out how the latest GPUs stack up.
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Chinese manufacturer YMTC has announced the third generation of its Xtacking 3D TLC technology, increasing NAND speed and density while cutting power consumption by 25%.
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Intel AV1 encoding has finally been tested in its Arc GPUs, and is very fast compared to H.264 encoders.
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Western Digital's latest WD Black SN850X PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSDs are finally available.
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The OC isn't as impressive as the previously released Gunnir model, but ASRock's ITX design is smaller, and much lighter.
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Grab a Creality Ender 3 V2 for just $199 right now. This is one of our favorite 3D printers and a great way of diving into the 3D printing maker space without laying out a fortune.
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DriveSavers claims it may be the first in the world to achieve M1 data recovery.
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Kioxia releases 256Gb XL-Flash storage class memory for advanced solid-state storage solutions.
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A new mysterious motherboard diagram that looks like an AMD AM5 variant of Asus' ROG overclocking motherboards has been shared online.
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The case includes a USB-powered filter, oxygenator, fish health tuned lighting, and it can fit up to a Micro-ATX motherboard, 90mm tall CPU cooler, and 220mm graphics card.
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Samsung's Memory-Semantic CXL SSD targets AI and ML applications with a large DRAM cache.
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Here's the Intel 13th-Gen Raptor Lake release date, benchmarks, specifications, pricing, and all we know about the new chip architecture.
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The MSI Pro B660M-A DDR4 sports a jet-black appearance offering two M.2 sockets, four SATA ports, mid-range audio, and fast wired networking. At under $140, it’s a good deal for those looking to get into Alder Lake and not overclock. That said, there are less expensive options available with similar specifications.
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SK Hynix's 238-layer 512Gbit 3D NAND devices enable inexpensive solid-state storage.
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U.S. government targets YMTC, Samsung, SK Hynix to protect American 3D NAND makers.
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We've gathered the top pre-built desktop and laptop deals you can find.
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There are lots of awesome monitor deals dropping every day! Here are the best offers worth your hard-earned money.
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Whether you're looking for PC components, peripherals or prebuilt systems, these are the best deals on tech.
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Pimoroni’s Pico W Aboard-powered Inventor 2040 W enables projects both on your desk and on the web.
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We wade into the endless debate: Who makes the best CPU, AMD or Intel? Here's the blow-by-blow in ten categories.
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AMD posts record revenue thanks to solid data center CPUs and gaming hardware sales.
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We've still got to wait three years before the first asteroid flyby.
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Leap seconds cause network turmoil. Meta wants to end them before the next one.
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AGs send demands to carriers allegedly responsible for most foreign robocalls.
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Delay will give Apple more time to catch up with iOS 16 for September.
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Reports blame tax write-off strategy; HBO Max also quietly delists six films.
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Starlink still trying to get $886M in FCC funds awarded by Ajit Pai in 2020.
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A new annual report could detail which candidates and causes Microsoft supports.
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Dealmaster also has more PS5 games, the MacBook Air, and 8BitDo gamepads.
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Insta360's Link is one of the most advanced webcams available.
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The initial test games include CLAW, a spin on Space Invaders.
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Success in laptops, game consoles, and servers leads to record quarter for AMD.
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Spying in space does not violate any international norms.
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Farmers, scientists work together to save a key ecosystem—and an endangered salamander.
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iFixit and Samsung both hope to expand the program in the future.
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False copyright claim briefly took Lofi Girl and her continuous music stream down.
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Price caps, income caps, and no Chinese batteries are the stumbling blocks.
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OnePlus cuts the price way down, but we miss the water resistance of the 10 Pro.
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Paramount+ revival adapts to how teen "TV" watching has shifted 30 years later.
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A series of transcripts lets us explore the world of Telenet, Dialcom, and The Source.
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WHO says it's seeing a broad range of illnesses as more people are infected.
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Potential applications include pressure-monitoring bandages, shade-shifting fabrics.
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Good news web slingers, as Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered from Insomniac Games and Nixxes Software has been Steam Deck Verified ahead of the upcoming release.
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Love The Walking Dead? Now you can pick up a whole bunch of the games thanks to the Walking Dead 10th Anniversary Bundle.
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Space Bandit is a new Native Linux top-down shooter where you're running through cramped corridors on some space ship. It's got a whole lot of style and some great tunes too.
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge is an absolutely fantastic beat 'em up throwback and now perhaps even better, with a big stability update out now!
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Enter the Panchaku is the latest big update to the rather great game Dead Cells, continuing to expand the game in a number of ways and tweak existing features.
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Yet another event is happening now on Steam with the Survival Fest, giving you a showcase of various games that in some way force you to survive the elements.
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Are you still enjoying your Raspberry Pi 4? Well, there's a graphics bump coming thanks to all the work in the drivers with it hitting Vulkan 1.2 conformance.
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All the latest Beta and Preview changes from Valve have gone live with SteamOS 3.3 and all the Steam Deck Client updates are now available for all users.
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OBS Studio is getting another major version bump with OBS Studio 28.0 Beta 1 now available for testing. Lots of big features included in this one, plus some nice Linux client updates.
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Like solving crosswords? Exercise your brain by solving crossword puzzles from various news outlets and websites on your Linux desktop.
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The DDR5 clocks are much less important than the HWBot stalwart source sharing evidence of an AMD Ryzen 7000 CPU in testing.
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AMD CEO Lisa Su announced that the company's 5nm Ryzen 7000 processors will launch later this quarter, while the high-end RDNA 3 GPUs will launch later this year.
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Our picks for the best ultrabooks (super thin and light notebooks), along with other premium laptops now.
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Here are our favorite gaming laptops for every need, based on our testing and reviews.
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Researchers from the Computer Security and Industrial Cryptography group at KU Leuven have used a single-core classical computer and advanced mathematics to take down a post-quantum cryptography algorithm.
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Samsung getting ready to release new flagship client SSD.
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Apple's game subscription service isn't immune to the usual downsides.
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But publisher leaves lucrative loophole for "early access" Patreon subscriptions.
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What the judge calls "deliberately false," Wright calls misunderstood evidence.
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Two-thirds of US drivers can charge at home—that leaves plenty who can't.
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Victims lured with "smart contracts" on Ethereum, Tron, and Binance blockchains.
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Hyper-brand dock has four power-delivering Thunderbolt 4 ports, seeks crowdfunding.
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Developers and Android games get more-robust access to the GPU.
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Short-term fix is simple, and a more permanent fix should be doable in software.
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"All spacefaring nations should follow established best practices."
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Synchron has implanted its BCI in a US patient for the first time.
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Leave it to mathematicians to muck up what looked like an impressive new algorithm.
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Hundreds need to be infected for one paralytic case to arise. And the virus keeps moving.
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It's a fresh month which means a new curated monthly bundle with the Humble Choice, so here's what's inside and what you can expect on Linux and Steam Deck.
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DXVK is a Direct3D to Vulkan translation layer used in Proton, to help run Windows games on Linux and Steam Deck. A new release version 1.10.3 is out now.
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Go on a bit of adventure as a Wizard in Scrabdackle, you just have to find your wand first. This scribbly-art hand-drawn adventure is ridiculously charming.
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Frogun is a brand new Native Linux release, designed in the spirit of the PlayStation 1 and Nintendo 64 era, this is a proper classic 3D platformer.
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Love exploration and mining? Want to do it with many explosions? Check out the new Native Linux release of BLASTRONAUT.
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Keeping a great many classics alive with new game engines, ScummVM version 2.6.0 is officially out now.
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The free and open source first-person strategy shooter Unvanquished has a new Beta release, which is quite a big one too overall on what's changed.
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Shadows of Adam is a JRPG inspired retro game from Something Classic Games that released back in 2017 and a small update came recently to improve it on Linux and Steam Deck.
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Valve has put out their usual monthly Steam Hardware & Software Survey and it's looking like good news for Linux and Steam Deck once again.
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KDE Plasma 5.25.4 is now available as a bugfix release to the latest Plasma 5.25 desktop environment series improving the Plasma Wayland session, Discover, and many other components.
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Valve has released a small update to the Steam Deck Beta branch, mostly bug fixes but also an improvement for handling external displays. Here's what's new.
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Consider this your quick tip of the week, as Republique from developer Camouflaj is now free to keep on Steam and it's also Steam Deck Verified!
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While many will no doubt wait on Valve for the official Steam Deck Dock, a lot of hardware vendors are coming out with their own versions. JSAUX are one of them and they sent over their Docking Station for Steam Deck for me to take a look at.
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Valve recently released an update for the main Steam client, which amongst other things brings support in Steam Input for the Nintendo Online classic controllers.
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There's a lot of places where developers can have their game logo across Steam, and some developers have been going pretty overboard with noisy images filled with extras. Valve is putting a stop to it.
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Minecraft Java Edition 1.19.1 is out now and it comes with some controversial changes, that many players are not particularly happy about.
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MangoHud is probably one of my favourite open source projects giving Linux gamers a fancy HUD to display various performance metrics in a nice overlay. Version 0.6.8 is out now!
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Razer make some pretty fancy hardware but, like a lot of vendors, don't exactly support Linux directly and so the OpenRazer project helps you out there.
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The latest kernel release is out with Linux 5.19 and showing just how far Linux support for the newer Apple silicon MacBooks has come, Linus Torvalds did the release on one!
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Windows compatibility on Linux continues to improve thanks to Wine, with the latest development release out now with Wine 7.14 available.
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"OpenFPGA" initiative pays immediate dividends, though it's not perfect yet.
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Visa claims the court's decision could affect the entire financial industry.
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Improper coding of Chinese characters let players weaponize copy-pasted text strings.
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Pichai changes Google's promotion incentives, wants "more customer focus."
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An open-source password manager with a pleasing user interface, available cross-platform. Let's take a look!
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This quick tutorial shows the steps for installing the latest version of Vim on Ubuntu-based Linux distributions.
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SpiralLinux aims to provide a simplified and out-of-the-box Debian experience. Does it succeed in doing so? Read in this review.
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Need some new games for the weekend? Humble Bundle have put up the Amazing Adventures Bundle and there are a couple of gems in it so let's take a look.
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Valve has announced that they've sorted out various issues with their Steam Deck supply chain, so they will get through reservations much faster than expected now.
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Yars: Recharged is the latest remake from Atari with developers Adamvision Studios and SneakyBox and it's launching on August 23rd with Native Linux support.
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Do you want to play the classic Diablo RPG? Well, not only does GOG have it and the Hellfire expansion but the Native Linux devilutionX game engine can make it even better. Here's how to get it working on Steam Deck (and Linux desktop!).
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Valve has released the latest update to Proton Experimental, the special version of Proton you can use that has the latest updates bringing more game compatibility to Linux and Steam Deck.
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The game store itch.io is running another Creator Day, this is where they don't take any cut from developers.
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The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months:
Geoffroy Berret (kaliko)
Arnaud Ferraris (aferraris)
The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months:
Alec Leanas
Christopher Michael Obbard
Lance Lin
Stefan Kropp
Matteo Bini
Tino Didriksen
Congratulations!
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Just King is going to be my next game to be fixated on. It's ridiculously cheap and offers up gameplay where you keep wanting to come back for more.
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Yes this is a real thing, DOOM modders will quite literally do anything and I'm here loving it. You can now play DOOM as the cat from Stray.
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Bottles is the free and open source app that allows you to easily manage Wine, the Windows compatibility layer on Steam Deck and Linux. Another new version is live, with a whole new versioning system to help you roll back changes.
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Recently I showed off Halo Infinite running quite nicely online on the Steam Deck and now GE-Proton 7-27 that just went up makes the process even smoother and the campaign and videos now work too.
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Cave Monsters has released their detective adventure game Lord Winklebottom Investigates with Native Linux support.
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One we apparently missed that arrived with Native Linux support back in May, Voodoo Detective is a Monkey Island inspired point-and-click adventure from Short Sleeve Studio.
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Valve has released a new SteamOS Beta update for Steam Deck and it finally sorts out the Firefox situation, along with hints of hardware changes, or a new controller coming? Plus a Steam Deck Client Beta update too!
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Gimme! The Excavation of Hob's Barrow is an upcoming adventure from developer Cloak and Dagger Games with publishing from Wadjet Eye Games and it instantly grabbed my attention.
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Valve has announced that the Steam Bash Bash event will be going live between September 19 and September 26.
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Here's one missed from earlier in July, the colourful 3D platformer Hobo Cat Adventures gained Native Linux support.
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Limit Theory was a once very promising looking space sim that was funded on Kickstarter. Sadly the developer cancelled it but now as promised they've opened up the source code.
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Pokete is a game we introduced you too recently that's inspired by Pokémon but you play it in a terminal. A new release is out bringing some nice advancements.
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Despite the name, VRChat is not a VR-only space and it's incredibly popular. Recently though, they added in Easy Anti-Cheat and the community is currently very unhappy with it.
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If you love using Flatpak applications, here are a few tips, tools, and tweaks to make your Flatpak experience better and smoother.
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